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

kweskwesek' I have a cold, I caught a cold

meges doctor, white doctor, medical doctor

meskwook' I doctor someone

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

lepehlek' I ache

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

'ochek' I sneeze

hewolon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

kegey doctor, Indian doctor

kyerneekerhl sprain

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

sleryhlkerp'ook' I blow my nose

teloguemek' I am in pain, I resent

merterlerp' nasal mucus, runny nose

tmentmen throb, ache

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

kweskwes have a cold

meloh brush dance officiant, medicine woman

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

puenomeehlkook' I am contaminated, I have a pain

chueluesew runny eyes

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

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

kesomuy corpse, dead person

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

kyerneekert sprain

k'leemowok' I feel ill

luuewoloyek' I cramp, I have a cramp

mechomee' venereal disease, the clap

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

mekwa'r menstrual hut

mek'woh pus

merserw ointment

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

nerrwert visit the sick

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

sewkweluemek' I am bruised

sleyehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

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

teenuuemonok crazy person

weyoksek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

weypegar there is an epidemic

yoneekwo' become sprained

'ochomek' I sneeze

'ochomok' I sneeze