spica
IPA: spˈaɪkʌ
noun
- (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.
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Examples of "spica" in Sentences
- Thanks for updating the names for Twin Spica.
- He seems to have a strange obsession over Spica.
- Spica, the brightest star in the constellation Virgo.
- Spica has a luminosity about 2,300 times that of the Sun.
- The series title is named after the binary star system Spica.
- If you continue the arc further, you will reach Spica in Virgo.
- A hip spica includes the trunk of the body and one or more legs.
- She has a jolly personality and is the jokester of Spica Platoon.
- A 'hip spica' includes the trunk of the body and one or more legs.
- At any particular date, this will tell you the time Spica will rise.
- \ "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.