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HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
Chibuli: deaf and dumb (Chin); the word is used in slang to mean impotence.
Chiwisuku: an old word meaning high fever.
Chilundulundu: “ wakongwe wawile chilundulundu,” the woman died in confinement
without giving birth (unopened). The sense of dumbness and constipation are sec-
ondary.
Kululilwa: constipation.
Malundunguli: colic; Masyongo, rumblings in the bowels, borborygmi.
Mandindili: “ pins and needles.”
Chikusa: sore and swollen gums, pyorrhoea; has been translated scurvy.
Chingungulukuta: hardened skin, like a corn on the hand.
Njeseka: without eye-lashes, as result of disease.
Ndandagasi, Lungumbisi: indistinctness of vision (Hetherwick).
Lososo: watering of the nose; nasal catarrh.
Mamboko: the secretion at the corners of the eyes in the morning, also the purulent
secretion of conjunctivitis (Hetherwick translates “ watering of the eyes ”).
Namila: nasal mucus.
Chimbondogolo: crusts from the nasal passages (Hetherwick translates merely “ nasal
mucus ”).
Likosomola: cough.
Chisungusya: after-pains of labor.
Ngwikwi: hiccough.
Ng’anang’ana: nystagmus, from a verb meaning “to look from side to side aimlessly.”
Iwenga: any skin eruption supposed to be due to eating various substances, chiefly meat.
Ku-lilimuka: to have a rash on the body of the nature of urticaria.
Ngolokolo: the name of a condition in which the place where a man passes water be-
comes whitened; hence it refers to cystitis, lithuria, etc.
Chikonokono (likonokono = a snail): the white on the ground resembling a snail track
left by a man with Ngolokolo.
Nduwi or Mlili: smallpox.
Ndonyola or Kasabola: chicken pox; this term may also include other diseases with
similar rash, i.e. modified smallpox and pemphigus.
Chitembo (ndembo = an elephant): elephantiasis.
Matana: leprosy.
Magawagawa: yaws (chimatuli, given by Hetherwick as “rodent ulcer,” is a Chinyanja
word for yaws).
Chindoko: (Swahili) syphilis.
Chisonono: (Swahili) gonorrhoea.
Lulachilachi: whooping-cough.
Chikuku: measles.
HARVARD AFRICAN STUDIES
Chibuli: deaf and dumb (Chin); the word is used in slang to mean impotence.
Chiwisuku: an old word meaning high fever.
Chilundulundu: “ wakongwe wawile chilundulundu,” the woman died in confinement
without giving birth (unopened). The sense of dumbness and constipation are sec-
ondary.
Kululilwa: constipation.
Malundunguli: colic; Masyongo, rumblings in the bowels, borborygmi.
Mandindili: “ pins and needles.”
Chikusa: sore and swollen gums, pyorrhoea; has been translated scurvy.
Chingungulukuta: hardened skin, like a corn on the hand.
Njeseka: without eye-lashes, as result of disease.
Ndandagasi, Lungumbisi: indistinctness of vision (Hetherwick).
Lososo: watering of the nose; nasal catarrh.
Mamboko: the secretion at the corners of the eyes in the morning, also the purulent
secretion of conjunctivitis (Hetherwick translates “ watering of the eyes ”).
Namila: nasal mucus.
Chimbondogolo: crusts from the nasal passages (Hetherwick translates merely “ nasal
mucus ”).
Likosomola: cough.
Chisungusya: after-pains of labor.
Ngwikwi: hiccough.
Ng’anang’ana: nystagmus, from a verb meaning “to look from side to side aimlessly.”
Iwenga: any skin eruption supposed to be due to eating various substances, chiefly meat.
Ku-lilimuka: to have a rash on the body of the nature of urticaria.
Ngolokolo: the name of a condition in which the place where a man passes water be-
comes whitened; hence it refers to cystitis, lithuria, etc.
Chikonokono (likonokono = a snail): the white on the ground resembling a snail track
left by a man with Ngolokolo.
Nduwi or Mlili: smallpox.
Ndonyola or Kasabola: chicken pox; this term may also include other diseases with
similar rash, i.e. modified smallpox and pemphigus.
Chitembo (ndembo = an elephant): elephantiasis.
Matana: leprosy.
Magawagawa: yaws (chimatuli, given by Hetherwick as “rodent ulcer,” is a Chinyanja
word for yaws).
Chindoko: (Swahili) syphilis.
Chisonono: (Swahili) gonorrhoea.
Lulachilachi: whooping-cough.
Chikuku: measles.