spica

IPA: spˈaɪkʌ

(botany) A spike.
(ornithology) A spur.
A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
(astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.

Examples of "spica" in Sentences

\ "If successful, a special cast (called a spica cast) is put on the baby to hold the hip in place.
A thumb spica splint is recommended to allow a child to have a more successful and functional grasp.
There was one family in there with a toddler in a spica cast—poor kid—looking at the penguins in their fake formal wear.
The figure-of-eight bandage is used on various parts, and is illustrated in the bandage called spica of the groin, Fig. IV, p. 132.
A thumb spica splint stabilizes the thumb outside of the palm so that the child can concentrate on moving his/her finger to pick up objects.
A thumb spica splint can be made like the resting hand splint or the weightbearing splint with a hard plastic material or it can be ordered in a soft neoprene material.
Ambulance trips were not covered by our policy; however, the hospital in Florida would not discharge anyone in a spica cast unless he or she was traveling by ambulance.
The ear of wheat (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (granum from gerendo, bearing) is not all that it bears.
The ear of wheat, (in Latin spica, obsoletely speca, from spe, hope,) should not be the only hope of the husbandman; its kernel or grain (ranum, from erendo, bearing,) is not all that it bears.