ʻāʻīʻalaʻala
/ ʻā.ʻīʻala.ʻala /Same as ʻāʻī palaʻe.
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Same as ʻāʻī palaʻe.
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s. Ai, to eat, and ala, or alaala, odoriferous. The scrofula.
Scrofula.
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Scrofula scar, now believed to represent tuberculous lymphadenitis, due to the specific organism, Mycobacte- rium tuberculosis. Scrofula is a medieval term for ulcerating neck lymph nodes. Tuberculosis, as an illness, was unknown in Hawaiʻi before Captain Cook.
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