Domain modules
Medical and Bodily Care
Someone wakes with a fever and says so, in their own words. Everything this module adds begins in that sentence: the report belongs to the person, the finding to a stated method, the conclusion to someone with a name, and consent to the one whose body it is. Thirty care-specific roots hold the space between "I feel" and "we act."
Like every module, these words are optional and use ordinary Phi grammar. Core Phi already reports pain, sickness, refusal, need, and care, and a speaker who has not learned the module can always ask for a core paraphrase. Learning it gives no one medical knowledge, a professional role, or any permission to act on another person's body.
The chapter table below introduces 30 roots. Current classifications bring the learning list to 51 words; the complete machine-generated list is available under Medical and Bodily Care in the module lexicon. The JSON entries in vocabulary/content/ remain authoritative for each word's form and full definition.
Core vocabulary used by the module
The module does not replace what Phi already says about bodies and their care. It adds narrower medical distinctions around these familiar resources.
| Area | Core Phi resources |
|---|---|
| Body and experience | weloni body, mashuri flesh, phaelo feel, morae sense, kipona pain, sikoru itch, numaro numbness, tiphori tingling, wiloru dizziness, mokela sick, mokura belly, lorika blood, siwe sweat |
| Ordinary bodily acts | whunei breathe, kehota cough, mupelo vomit, lisaku lick, pumari suck, nishoku sneeze, ketumi hiccup, rumeka belch, murase swell, kesiri shrink, nulae sleep, therilu rest |
| Health and care | sunai health, wolu healthy, theama care, theala heal, nepha medicine, naphe help, panoru support, thuleni comfort, shorupo protect, shurano safe, pukea danger |
| Autonomy and interaction | lesawi consent, palo touch, loa give, kanu choose, nawo agree, naweri refuse, kelomi accept, thekao acknowledge, nawea respect, kawhera coerce, whepelo retaliate, hasi wait, pi politeness, wa question |
| Explanation and understanding | reo meaning, thelima describe, solae explain, lilea clarify, shelomu understand, sano know, nohero believe, nila see, hea hear |
| Evidence and modality | masue measure, siru marker, sirami record, sherewa claim, thesori evidence, remotha reason, kirema criterion, hi direct evidence, ke inference, ti report, ho assumption, po possibility, na necessity, ma negation, and separately preserved source material |
| Planning and status | winora plan, hasoru pending |
The sibling modules lend their tools where care meets their ground: Systems for the monitor at the bedside, Work for the shift handoff, Commons for who may decide what, and Ecological for a contaminant in water or sumeri temperature as the parameter named by a clinical record. Base sherewa claim, thesori evidence, remotha reason, and kirema criterion support the discussion before Philosophical Reasoning adds its sharper argument terms. suloru names fever as a bodily condition, and the source record carries the exact temperature value.
Additional roots in this learning path
The Medical path also includes three particular preparations.
| Phi | Working sense | Why it belongs here |
|---|---|---|
heloa | remedy; a treatment or medicine intended to answer a particular ailment | A remedy is narrower than medicine in general because it is matched to the problem it is meant to resolve. |
thelai | balm; a soothing ointment applied to the body | Balm names an external preparation and the relief intended through touch. |
wenu | tonic; a medicinal drink intended to restore strength | The drink is a particular care preparation; health, medicine, drinking, and strength remain separate base words. |
Shared-core consent
lesawi is not a module word, and that is the point. Consent lives in base vocabulary because it matters everywhere: in care, in touch, in work, in research, in ordinary contact. It names an agreement freely and specifically given, with a scope, and it can be conditional, withheld, or withdrawn at any moment.
mia ha phoa lesawi.
1SG PROX do consent.
lesawi is freely and specifically given agreement to one action. The surrounding account shows what was proposed and explained, what the person understood, and whether refusal was a practical choice. Agreement (nawo) and acceptance (kelomi) are broader relations; silence and dependence describe other conditions. A signature or an institution's kanuwa authorization belongs to its own source or institutional record rather than to the person's choice.
Informed consent stays a process, not a compound that proves its own conditions. An assessable account names what was offered and understood, the available alternatives, and whether the consent is still current.
Roots introduced in this chapter
| Phi | Part of speech | Working sense | Essential contrast |
|---|---|---|---|
phamori | noun | symptom; bodily or mental experience reported by a person | A symptom belongs to the person who feels it; hisaro is what a method observed. |
hisaro | noun | clinical finding; health-relevant observation produced by a stated method | A finding carries its method with it; without the method it is just a number. |
kaworu | noun | injury; bodily change or damage associated with an event or exposure | Injury names the body's change, not who is to blame for it. |
mokanu | noun | disease; classified pattern or process affecting health | A disease is a classification; the person is never the classification. |
peshiro | noun | infection; infectious agent present and active in a host | Infection means the agent is present and active; exposure alone is not it. |
thephaku | noun | inflammation; local or systemic bodily response pattern | Inflammation is the body's response, not the invader. |
suloru | noun | fever; elevated bodily temperature under a stated reference | A fever is elevated against a stated reference; the exact reading lives in the record. |
katheo | adjective | acute; recent, rapid, or comparatively short clinical course | Acute is about time course, not danger. |
nurawi | adjective | chronic; persisting or recurring over a stated duration | Chronic means persisting, not permanent, and never who the person is. |
pelaku | noun | severity; degree of health effect under stated criteria | Severity sits on someone's stated scale; urgency is a different question. |
kithero | verb | diagnose; form or state a clinical conclusion | A diagnosis is a conclusion someone drew; it can be provisional, revised, or wrong. |
wireki | noun | prognosis; conditional claim about expected health course | A prognosis is conditional, never a sentence passed on a life. |
soranu | verb | screen; apply a health check to identify possible need for evaluation | Screening looks for who may need evaluation; it neither diagnoses nor obliges. |
nephoru | verb | treat; undertake care intended to change a health condition | Treatment intends change; benefit and consent stand apart from it. |
thekamu | verb | intervene; deliberately act on a health state or care process | An intervention is any deliberate act on a health state; treatment is the narrower intention. |
mikasu | noun | dose; specified amount at a stated administration | A dose is one amount at one administration; unit and schedule stay exact in the record. |
porewi | noun | side effect; additional effect beyond an intervention's target | A side effect is anything beyond the target, harmful or not. |
whekaro | noun | adverse effect; harmful or burdensome effect associated with an intervention | An adverse effect claims harm; it does not yet claim cause. |
whemaki | noun | allergy; immune-mediated hypersensitivity to a stated agent | An allergy is immune-mediated; not every intolerance qualifies. |
nathoku | adjective | contraindicated; advised against under a stated clinical reason | Contraindicated reports a source's advice against, not an impossibility. |
helanu | verb | recover; move toward a prior or desired health state | Recovery is movement the person gets to define; it need not mean an earlier body. |
morashi | verb | relapse; return or worsening after improvement in the same course | Relapse is the same course returning, and it is nobody's moral failure. |
sewaro | verb | transmit; pass an infectious agent between hosts or reservoirs | Transmission traces a pathway, not a blame. |
welathi | adjective | contagious; capable of transmission between hosts under conditions | Contagious is a capability under conditions, not a verdict on a person. |
weshaku | noun | outbreak; cluster or excess of related health cases | An outbreak is an excess against an expectation, not yet a cause. |
shorenu | adjective | immune; having conditioned protection or reduced susceptibility | Immunity is scoped protection, not invulnerability. |
shuneki | verb | vaccinate; administer a vaccine intended to induce protection | Vaccination is the act; immunity and consent are each their own fact. |
sonari | verb | isolate; separate a known or suspected infectious source | Isolation separates a known source; teshori waits out an uncertainty. |
teshori | verb | quarantine; restrict contact after possible exposure during uncertainty | Quarantine restricts contact during uncertainty; it justifies no stigma. |
kithawu | verb | triage; prioritize assessment or care under constraints | Triage orders care under scarcity; it never ranks human worth. |
The verbs receive event or result nouns through Phi's ordinary event-noun rule: kithero can name a diagnosis, soranu screening, nephoru treatment, thekamu an intervention, helanu recovery, morashi relapse, sewaro transmission, shuneki vaccination, sonari isolation, teshori quarantine, and kithawu triage. The adjectives katheo, nurawi, nathoku, welathi, and shorenu likewise name their qualities or states through the quality-noun rule.
Symptoms, findings, and bodily conditions
phamori begins with the person: what they feel, in their words, with their uncertainty and their changes over time kept intact. Someone else may ask questions or write the report down, but observation never becomes ownership of the experience.
mia ha phamori thelima.
1SG PROX symptom describe.
hisaro begins with a method: a measurement, an examination, an image read by someone. The method, its conditions, and its exact artifact travel with the finding, because a finding that has shed its method is just a number with confidence it has not earned.
shia ha hisaro sirami.
3SG PROX clinical finding record.
A symptom and a finding can support each other, conflict, or talk past each other entirely. Neither outranks the other by kind, and their disagreement accuses no one of lying.
kaworu names the body's change after an event, a force, a strain, an exposure. Who caused the event, and what the change will mean, are questions the word leaves open on purpose.
mia kaworu phelu.
1SG injury hold.
mokanu is a sourced classification of a health-affecting pattern; the exact disease name, when its identity matters, stays in the record beside the Phi. peshiro is narrower: an agent, present and active, in or on a host. Infection can exist without symptoms, and exposure does not prove it.
ha mokanu nurawi nai.
PROX disease chronic be.
ha peshiro welathi po ma nai.
PROX infection contagious POT NEG be.
thephaku is the body answering, not the invader: infection can raise it, but so can injury and the immune system's own work.
ha kaworu thephaku phelu.
PROX injury inflammation hold.
suloru is fever against a stated reference, for this person, at this site, by this method. The exact reading and its threshold belong to the record.
mia suloru phelu.
1SG fever hold.
Course and severity
katheo and nurawi speak of time, not of danger. A condition can be acute and mild, acute and severe, chronic and steady, chronic and shifting; the pair refuses to smuggle intensity inside duration.
ha kaworu katheo nai.
PROX injury acute be.
pelaku is severity on someone's stated scale, and the scales can disagree with each other: pain, function, physiological danger, and daily burden are different dimensions, and a person can score high on one and low on another.
lo mia ha pelaku kisome.
PL 1SG PROX severity assess.
Urgency is yet another question. A mild condition can call for immediate action; a severe chronic burden can go too long without serious attention. Naming the time relation keeps pelaku from quietly deciding it.
Diagnosis, prognosis, and screening
kithero is a conclusion drawn by someone, under criteria. It can take a complement clause, so the proposition being concluded stays visible in the sentence.
shia tha mia ha mokanu phelu tho kithero.
3SG DECL.COMP 1SG PROX disease hold DECL.COMP.CLOSE diagnose.
A diagnosis can be provisional, differential, revised, or disputed, and the exact label with its author and date belongs to the record. What a diagnosis never does is consent on the person's behalf or decide their future for them.
wireki looks forward, conditionally. It rests on a condition, a time horizon, available care, and honest uncertainty, and evidence from many people can inform one person's prognosis without dictating it.
shia ha wireki lilea.
3SG PROX prognosis clarify.
soranu looks across people for possible need, usually before any diagnosis. A screening has a purpose, a method, and a follow-up path. Participation requires its own consent; the screening supplies none.
shia lo miona soranu.
3SG PL person screen.
The work module's somaki (test) runs the procedure; hisaro names what it found; kithero draws the conclusion. Three acts, three words, which is what makes a false, incidental, or changing result discussable instead of catastrophic.
Treatment, intervention, and dose
nephoru carries a health-changing intention: medicine, therapy, support, a changed room, whatever the care is. Intention is all it carries; cure and benefit are hopes, not parts of the verb.
shia mia nephoru.
3SG 1SG treat.
thekamu is broader and cooler: any deliberate act on a health state, diagnostic or preventive, therapeutic or palliative. The exact procedure name, where one exists, stays in the record beside the Phi.
shia ha thekamu phoa.
3SG PROX intervene do.
mikasu is one amount at one administration. Its unit, route, and schedule remain precise and checkable in the source instruction.
mia ha mikasu reo ma shelomu.
1SG PROX dose meaning NEG understand.
A care conversation can keep its parts visible. The record and its meaning come first; the proposed action, expected effect, and uncertainty follow. Alternatives and questions lead to the person's lesawi or naweri. Separate clauses let each part make its own claim.
Effects, allergy, and contraindication
porewi is anything an intervention does beyond its target, and it can be a gift, a nuisance, or a harm. whekaro makes the harm claim specifically, while leaving cause an open question.
ha nepha porewi phelu.
PROX medicine side effect hold.
mia ha whekaro thelima.
1SG PROX adverse effect describe.
whemaki is a claim about the immune system, tied to a stated agent. A dislike, an intolerance, or an ordinary side effect does not become an allergy by being unwanted, and the exact allergy record deserves preservation with all its uncertainty.
mia whemaki phelu.
1SG allergy hold.
nathoku reports that a source advises against, under a stated reason. Whether the advice is absolute or relative, current or stale, and what the alternatives are: those questions stay askable, because the word claims advice and nothing stronger.
ha nepha nathoku nai.
PROX medicine contraindicated be.
A side effect names an effect beyond the target; an adverse effect adds harm. Allergy concerns immune response, while contraindication reports advice against. Refusal and failure answer other questions again. Each needs its own evidence.
Recovery and relapse
helanu moves toward a state the person and their life get to define. Recovery can mean adaptation and continuing care rather than the body of an earlier year, and the word holds that door open.
shia helanu.
3SG recover.
morashi is the same course returning after improvement. It blames no one, and it does not erase the ground already gained.
shia to morashi.
3SG PST relapse.
Remission, recurrence, cure, and response remain explicit claims about findings, criteria, and time. morashi is only for the same road doubling back.
Transmission, protection, and public health
sewaro follows an agent along a pathway; welathi says the pathway is open under conditions. Neither word turns a host into a moral or social danger.
ha peshiro thue phialu po sewaro.
PROX infection THROUGH water POT transmit.
ha mokanu welathi nai.
PROX disease contagious be.
weshaku is a cluster or excess against a case definition, a population, a place, a period. The exact epidemic, pandemic, or emergency category, when one applies, stays outside the Phi passage.
ha lokue weshaku phelu.
PROX place outbreak hold.
shorenu is protection that is scoped and can change: strong against symptoms, weaker against transmission, different next season.
shia shorenu nai.
3SG immune be.
shuneki names the act of giving a vaccine for a protective purpose. The exact product, lot, and schedule stay in the record, and neither the consent before the act nor the immunity after it rides along in the verb.
shia mia shuneki.
3SG 1SG vaccinate.
sonari separates a source already known or suspected. teshori restricts contact while the picture is still uncertain. A responsible account names the duration, the support and communication available to the person, and a way back.
shia miso sonari.
3SG REFL isolate.
ha punoki shia teshori.
PROX institution 3SG quarantine.
kithawu orders care under real constraints, and the ordering answers to stated criteria that can be examined and argued with. What it must never become is a ranking of who deserves to live.
shia lo miona kithawu.
3SG PL person triage.
Public health can call for collective action, but no medical word grants authority by itself. Commons carries rules, jurisdiction, and accountability; Accessibility carries communication and participation; Work carries staffing and handoff; and the operative details stay in exact source protocols.
Useful transparent compositions and source boundaries
| Phi expression or strategy | Practical meaning | Why it remains compositional or external |
|---|---|---|
lesawi plus explicit information, understanding, alternatives, freedom, scope, and withdrawal | informed consent process | No signature or record proves by itself that the process was real or still current. |
exact method and result plus Work somaki and hisaro | clinical test and finding | Keeps the procedure, the raw result, and the interpretation as three separate things. |
kirema criterion plus exact value, unit, population, and method | clinical threshold | Keeps a number tied to the purpose it was set for, instead of universal. |
possible peloma harm plus time, evidence, uncertainty, severity, and exact probability externally | clinical risk | Keeps possibility, probability, and how bad the outcome would be from blurring into one warning. |
| result, later evidence, and applicable criterion stated in clauses | false-positive or false-negative result | Makes the error and the standard it is measured against both explicit. |
general thekamu or nephoru around an exact source name | procedure, surgery, therapy, or named treatment | Keeps the technical name precise without importing a whole catalogue of borrowed labels. |
exact product and prescription artifact plus nepha, mikasu, thimora, and action clauses | medicine, formulation, route, course, and prescription | These are safety details worth their own exactness, not a Phi approximation. |
miona person plus sithora, competence, qualification, representation, and exact title where needed | patient, clinician, caregiver, interpreter, and other care roles | Keeps the person separate from whatever temporary role or credential they hold. |
theama winora with actions, goals, consent, uncertainty, and review | care plan | A plan does not authorize its own interventions or guarantee the support behind it. |
Work sethoni with information, unresolved needs, receipt, understanding, and accountability | clinical handoff | Passing a record along does not by itself make anyone responsible for what happens next. |
Ecological phisuri plus bodily source, collection, handling, and identifier | clinical specimen | Keeps the sample's origin and integrity separate from how representative or diagnostic it turns out to be. |
| harm, time sensitivity, bodily state, available care, and necessary action | urgency or emergency | Urgency is not severity by another name, and it grants no unlimited authority. |
| agent or uncertainty, pathway, protective action, burden, consent, authority, support, and review | prevention and infection control | Keeps protection from becoming an excuse for surveillance or exclusion. |
Source material stays outside the Phi passage here as everywhere. Quantities keep their exact values and units. Dates and schedules retain their notation; routes, thresholds, and protocols retain theirs. Medicine and vaccine names preserve precise product identities, as do devices, tests, and specimens. Diagnoses, classifications, credentials, and source-script names keep their exact forms.
Using the module well
An effective account begins with the person and the concrete relation: who felt something, who observed it, what is being proposed, and who consented or refused. Symptoms and findings enter as they matter. Time course, evidence, and uncertainty follow in their own terms. A module word gathers that detail without replacing it.
Person-first wording keeps a diagnosis or role from swallowing the sentence. Someone can be sick and injured while living with chronic illness. They may be contagious under stated conditions, receive care, and give care to someone else at the same time. No single classification is the whole of who they are.
An unfamiliar module word can always be met with a request for a core paraphrase. The paraphrase need not recreate a dictionary entry; naming the report, the evidence, and the proposed action is usually enough.
Care conversations and recovery accounts remain useful tests of the vocabulary. So do chronic-care narratives, uncertain diagnoses, medication decisions, and public-health disagreements. Mental health and reproductive health deserve their own careful scenario work. Sexuality, gender, and coercive care do too. Each belongs to deliberate scenario work beyond this module's default scope.