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chueluesew runny eyes

hewolon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

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

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

kegey doctor, Indian doctor

kesomuy corpse, dead person

kweskwes have a cold

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

kyerneekerhl sprain

kyerneekert sprain

k'leemowok' I feel ill

lepehlek' I ache

luuewoloyek' I cramp, I have a cramp

mechomee' 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

meloh brush dance officiant, medicine woman

merserw ointment

merterlerp' nasal mucus, runny nose

meskwook' I doctor someone

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

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

nerrwert visit the sick

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

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

puenomeehlkook' I am contaminated, I have a pain

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

sewkweluemek' I am bruised

sleryhlkerp'ook' I blow my nose

sleyehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

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

teenuuemonok crazy person

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

teloguemek' I am in pain, I resent

tmentmen throb, ache

weyoksek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

weypegar there is an epidemic

yoneekwo' become sprained

'ochek' I sneeze

'ochomek' I sneeze

'ochomok' I sneeze