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Early Hick Lexicon — Medical Terms

Entries in the Medical Terms semantic field.

arsil /ar.sil/
open wound, cut (noun) [Medical Terms, Body Terms, Injury Terms]
dudup /du.dup/
swollen muscle (noun) [Body Terms, Medical Terms]
dup /dup/
pearl; lump, mass (noun) [Natural Terms, Medical Terms]
Proto-Hick *dupu
Shows semantic extension from 'pearl' to general 'rounded mass'
gralimris /gra.lim.ris/
excrement (noun) [Medical Terms, Body Terms]
imbris /im.bris/
fever, harmful heat (noun) [Medical Terms, Body States, Illness Terms]
Shows productive use of im in its older moral sense of evil, harmful, or improper condition, not the newer western privative prefix.
kandup /kan.dup/
head lump, bump on head (noun) [Body Terms, Medical Terms, Injury Terms]