Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bandage applied in overlapping opposite spirals to immobilize a digit or limb.
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- noun A kind of
bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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\ "If successful, a special cast (called a spica cast) is put on the baby to hold the hip in place.
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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.
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A thumb spica splint is recommended to allow a child to have a more successful and functional grasp.
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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.
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There was one family in there with a toddler in a spica cast—poor kid—looking at the penguins in their fake formal wear.
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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.
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