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tlaxhuiztli.

Headword: 
tlaxhuiztli.
Principal English Translation: 

abscess

Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 283.

IPAspelling: 
tɬɑʃwistɬi
Frances Karttunen: 

TLAXHUIZ-TLI boil, tumor / divieso, incordio, o nacido (M) [(5)Zp.28,47,87,123,218]. In two of five attestations Z marks the vowel of the second syllable long. See (I)XHUI.
Frances Karttunen, An Analytical Dictionary of Nahuatl (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992), 303.

Attestations from sources in English: 

ynic pati tequixquitl calcuichtli ychcaychtli yoã ocotzotl nicãmochiua = It is cured with saltpeter, soot, cotton fiber, and pine resin, which are produced here (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fray Bernardino de Sahagún, Primeros Memoriales, ed. Thelma D. Sullivan, et al. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997), 282.