ọyà mkpụlụ akū
NounNdebe script
Meanings
disease characterised by growth of kernel-like tumours visible under the skin or really prominent and hard on any part of the body, and diseases characterised by swelling and hardening of the glands of the body, which become hard and prominent and look like kernels (especially the lymphoid glands); may be malignant or non-malignant. This is another example of one of the Igbo methods of disease diagnosis. The disease is diagnosed by symptoms, so that numberless different diseases which appear to show similar signs can be given one name; thus three persons suffering from different diseases may be diagnosed as suffering from the same disease by this diagnostic method
Noun
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Examples
Ọyà mkpụlụ akū na-egbu ụmụaka n'ime obodo anyị.
— The kernel-like tumour disease is killing children in our town.
Dọkịta hụrụ ọyà mkpụlụ akū n'olu nwata ahụ.
— The doctor saw the kernel-like tumour disease on that child's neck.
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