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chue-lue-sew runny eyes

he-wo-lon heal, cure (the body, an illness)

hlke-kwo-lek' I limp, I am lame, I am crippled

hoo-rue-re-hlek' I feel sick, I feel nauseous, I have nausea

ke-gey doctor, Indian doctor

ke-so-muy corpse, dead person

kwes-kwes have a cold

kwes-kwe-sek' I have a cold, I caught a cold

kwes-'o-yew prayer doctor

kwes-'o-ye-wek' I treat (used of prayer doctor)

kwe-to-yos pear-shaped piece of wood put near fire in wishing ill on someone

kya' sore, ulcer

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

kyer-nee-kerhl sprain

kyer-nee-kert sprain

k'lee-mo-wok' I feel ill

le-pe-hlek' I ache

luue-wo-lo-yek' I cramp, I have a cramp

me-cho-mee' venereal disease, the clap

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

me-ges doctor, white doctor, medical doctor

me-gey-yoo miscarry, die soon after birth, be stillborn, lose children in childbirth

me-kwa'r menstrual hut

mek'-woh pus

me-loh brush dance officiant, medicine woman

mer-serw ointment

mer-ter-lerp' nasal mucus, runny nose

mes-kwook' I doctor someone

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

moy-kek' I die (used of gods, plants, and animals)

nerr-wert visit the sick

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

pue-no-meehl malicious thoughts (cause of illness in someone else), contamination, bad omen

pue-no-meehl-kook' I am contaminated, I have a pain

roo-wo's he-goh a plant whose leaves are used for colds

sew-kwe-lue-mek' I am bruised

sleryhl-kerp-'ook' I blow my nose

sley-yehl substance like mucus which contained a pain object

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

tee-nuue-mo-nok crazy person

te-lek' I am ill, I am sick, I am physically unwell

te-lo-gehl "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

te-lo-gue-mek' I am in pain, I resent

tment-men throb, ache

wey-yok-sek' I am poisoned, I have cancer

wey-pe-gar there is an epidemic

yo-nee-kwo' become sprained

'o-chek' I sneeze

'o-cho-mek' I sneeze

'o-cho-mok' I sneeze