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cuitlapanxilotl.

Headword: 
cuitlapanxilotl.
Principal English Translation: 

back-bone (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
cuitlapānxīlōtl
IPAspelling: 
kwitɬɑpɑːnʃiːloːtɬ
Frances Karttunen: 

CUITLAPĀNXĪLŌ-TL inalienably possessed form: -CUITLAPANXĪLŌYŌ back-bone / su espina dorsal, su espinazo (T for third person possessor) [(1)Tp.129]. See CUITLAPAN-TLI, XĪLŌ-TL.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 73.

themes: 
Anatomy
See also: 
cuitlapantli.
xilotl.