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matlapoa.

Headword: 
matlapoa.
Principal English Translation: 

to be injected intravenously; to give someone an intravenous injection (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
mātlapoā
IPAspelling: 
mɑːtɬɑpoɑː
Frances Karttunen: 

MĀTLAPOĀ vrefl, vt to be injected intravenously; to give someone an intravenous injection / se inyecta intravenosamente (T), lo inyecta intrvenosamente (T) [(6)Tp. 153,192]. The literal sense of this is ‘to open the arm.’ See MĀ (I)-TL, TLAPOLOĀ.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 139.