Table 2

Local terms and their approximate English equivalents

Vignette with convulsions

Obosomase
English translation
Galo-Sota
English translation

Sroakyereno
Attacked by the sky
Xeivitsoe
Taken/attacked by a bird
Adiatorniso
Obsessed or possessed
Adukpodzidor dzedzi
Attacked by garbage dump illness
Atridii barima akyereno
Attacked by male malaria
Hehedor dzedzi
Attacked by stretching illness


Dordzagla/dorsese dzedzi
Attacked by a strong illness


Dzifotorwotsoe
Taken by the people of the sky


Miatorwotsoe
Taken by our friends

Vignette without convulsions1

Atridii
Hot body, yellowish urine, yellowish eyes, Vomiting, cold, and shivering, bodily pains, weakness, refusal of food, easily startled, paleness, weight loss, etc
Asra
Hot body, yellowish urine, yellowish eyes, Vomiting, cold and shivering, bodily pains, weakness, refusal of food, easily startled, paleness, weight loss, etc
Ebun

Fever

Feve

Nudza

Malaria

Malaria


1Local terms and names for MRI without convulsions have no single equivalent in English, and were used interchangeably to represent similar conditions. "Malaria" and "fever" have also been incorporated in local usage as terms and names.

Ahorlu et al. Malaria Journal 2005 4:47   doi:10.1186/1475-2875-4-47