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chulusew runny eyes

hewolon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

hlkekwolek' I limp, I am lame, I am crippled

hoorurehlek' I feel sick, I feel nauseous, I have nausea

kegey doctor, Indian doctor

kesomuy corpse, dead person

kweskwesek' I have a cold, I caught a cold

kwes'oyew prayer doctor

kwes'oyewek' I treat (used of prayer doctor)

kwetoyos pear-shaped piece of wood put near fire in wishing ill on someone

kya' sore, ulcer

kya'hl'oo' open sore, ulcer, open wound

kyrnikrhl sprain

kyrnikrt sprain

k'limowok' I feel ill

lepehlek' I ache

luuwoloyek' I cramp, I have a cramp

mechomi' venereal disease, the clap

megenep' it moves or stretches in an elastic way (like an inchworm, or in a belly-ache or body building), it (someone's stomach) aches

meges doctor, white doctor, medical doctor

megeyoo miscarry, die soon after birth, be stillborn, lose children in childbirth

mekwa'r menstrual hut

mek'woh pus

melo' brush dance officiant, medicine woman

meskwok' I doctor someone

me'yk'wah boil (skin affliction), pus

moykek' I die (used of gods, plants, and animals)

mrsrw ointment

mrtrlrp' nasal mucus, runny nose

nrrwrt visit the sick

po'oh get well, heal (intr.), scar, healed sore

punomihl malicious thoughts (cause of illness in someone else), contamination, bad omen

punomihlkok' I am contaminated, I have a pain

roowo's hegoh a plant whose leaves are used for colds

sewkwelumek' I am bruised

sleyehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

slryhlkrp'ok'

soo' cascara tree, chittamwood, cascara tree bark used as laxative

telek' I am ill, I am sick, I am physically unwell

telogehl "small animate objects which in the body of an ordinary person cause disease but in the body of [a doctor] give her clairvoyance and the faculty of curing", pain, disease, illness

telogumek' I am in pain, I resent

tinuumonok crazy person

tmentmen throb, ache

weyoksek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

weypegar there is an epidemic

yonikwo' become sprained

'ochek' I sneeze

'ochomek' I sneeze

'ochomok' I sneeze