the practice of medicine, medical knowledge, the medical arts; also, divination through augury, prognostication, omens (see Molina)
ca tulteca catca in veuetque in oxomoco, in çipactonal, in tlaltetecuj, in xochicaoaca, in tlamatinj catca: in qujtztiaque, in qujximattiaque patli, in qujpeoaltitiaque ticiotl. = The old men Osomoco, Cipactonal, Tlaltetecui, Xochicaoaca, were Tolteca. They were the wise men who discovered, who knew of, medicine; who discovered, who knew of, medicine; who originated the medical art. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)