tlama.

Headword: 
tlama.
Principal English Translation: 

physician or surgeon, someone competent in a specialty (see Karttunen)

Orthographic Variants: 
tlamah
IPAspelling: 
tɬɑhmɑh
Alonso de Molina: 

tlama. medico o zurujano.
Alonso de Molina, Vocabulario en lengua castellana y mexicana y mexicana y castellana, 1571, part 2, Nahuatl to Spanish, f. 125r. col. 1. Thanks to Joe Campbell for providing the transcription.

Frances Karttunen: 

TLAHMAH physician or surgeon, someone competent in a specialty / médico o cirujano (M), el médico, o official de habilidad (C) [(1)Cf.128v]. A variant of this is TLAHMATQUI. R has TLAMAH ‘someone who knows something,’ which apparently contrasts with this. IHMAT(I).
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 261.

Attestations from sources in English: 

See an image that represents tlama in the Visual Lexicon of Aztec Hieroglyphs, ed. Stephanie Wood (Eugene, Ore.: Wired Humanities, 2020-present).

themes: 
Occupations, Responsibilities