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.