logo
भारतवाणी
bharatavani  
logo
Knowledge through Indian Languages
Bharatavani

Dictionary of Manipuri Medical Terms (Manipuri-English)

খেবা
(Kheba): Irritative trouble = The act and suffering of irritative trouble in the respiratory system, especially on the upper air passage or windpipe/ trachea.

খেনম
(Khenam): Medicinal herb (unidentified)= A medicinal plant/herb, the leaf or the juice of the leaf/stem of which is used to apply/treat to retard/recover the temporary itching or irritation on the skin caused by the touch of the leaf of a plant/herb called KHERATI (Holigarna longifolia)

খেবাৎপা
(Khebatpa): Laceration = The act/site of a tear in the flesh/ muscle trough the skin producing a wound with irregular edge(s)/points(s).

খেমজি
(Khemji): Arsenic = (As), an element A.W. 74, 92lb, At No. 33. Exists in three allotropic forms - ordinary gray metallic arsenic, r.d. 5.727; black arsenic, r.d.4.5., and yellow arsenic r.d. 2.0, Occurs combine with Oxygen as white arsenic, As2O3; with some metals and as the element.Metallic arsenic is used in semiconductors and in alloys. Compounds are very poisonous and are used in medicine and for destroying pest. It is found in Manipur as an extraction of wood - oil (Terpenes) from the tree called Khe-U [Sumach (Melanorrhoea usitata fam. Anarcadiaceae)].

খেরাই
(Kherai): Holigarna longifolia = A plant/herb , the juice of the green/fresh leaf/stem or the powdered pieces of the leaf/stem or the local leaf/stem when touches or renders to touch the skin produces/results a temporary itching with pain. It can be treated to normalize the itching and pain. It can be treated to normalize/ neutralize the itching and pain by treatment/touch of the leaf/stem of Khenam herb, heated for some minutes and keeping the hot leaf on the effected/ affected site of the skin. See ` Khenam` also.

খোই
(Khoi): Bee (Apidae)/Vespa (Vespidae), etc., Wasp = Any of a large number of insects belonging to the order Hymenoptra and constituting many families including vespidae, to which common wasp (Vespa vularies) and European hornet(Vespa crabo) belong. The stinging of the bees and vespas are accounted as ailments.

খোইরাই
(Khoirai): Migraine = Condition resulting from spam (sudden, usually painful involuntary contriction of a muscle as in cramp) and subsequent orverdilation of certain arteries in the brain which causes a recurrent throbbing headache that characteristically affects one side of the head.There is sometimes forewarning of an attack (an Aura) cosisting of visual disturbance or tingling and/or weakness of the limbs which clear up as the headache deveops. It is often accompanied by prostration, nausea and vomitting and photophobia (abnormal sensitivity to light) The symptoms as aforesaid include a severe headache, generally over one eye or at one temple, nausea and tunnel vision followed by retinal pattering (flashes of light) and possible temporary blindness. Set of symptoms that occurs irregularly in some people but not all in others. Effective preventive therapies [e.g. sumatriptan (a 5HT, agonist = prime mover that is effective in the treatment of acute migraine by rapidly reversing the dilatation of blood vessels in the head that causes the migraine headache), zolmitriptan (sumatriptan)] may be used to treat acute attack. Or,(ii) Cluster Headache = A variant of migraine more common in men than in women (ratio 9:1). The unilateral pain around one eye is very severe and lasts between 15 minutes and three hours. The attacks commonly occur in the early hours of the morning but may occur eight times a day. The pain is associated with drooping of the eyelid (Ptosis) & bloodshot eye and/or excessive production of tear in the eye. The acute treatment is with antimigraine drugs (5HT1 agonist) and prophylaxis is with such drugs as verapamil lithium or methysergide.

খোঙ
(Khong): This term denotes the Hindlimb or leg and foot both. Leg = Inferior/ Hind limb = The lower part of the body with which a person/ animal walks and stands. The leg is formed with/ of the thigh, the most fleshy and muscular part/ organ of the body in which the femur (thighbone) lies, the knee which formed the hinged joint under which lies the patella(Knee cap), Shank or lower leg in which the radius and ulna (the shinbones) are embedding and the foot joined by ankle. In some case leg is conceived the above cited organs excluding the ankle and foot.

খোঙদোন
(Khongdon): Tipoe = The part of the foot that is on the tip of the toe and contains the footnail.

খোঙনাউ(বী)
(Khongnaobi): Little toe = The smallest and outermost toe of a foot.


logo