(n.) A vitiated appetite that craves what is unfit for food, as chalk, ashes, coal, etc.; chthonophagia.
(n.) A service-book. See Pie.
(n.) A size of type next larger than small pica, and smaller than English.
Example Sentences:
(1) During the operation an upward looping PICA was found crossing and tightly compressing the exit zone of the right facial nerve.
(2) CT showed low density areas in 15 cases after 24 hours of the onset, but an abnormality was not demonstrated in one case which had an infarction of PICA area.
(3) In this method, when the angle between the film and the horizontal plain of Frankfurt is fixed at 50 degrees, the origin of PICA is projected on the film between the upper and lower teeth line.
(4) Especially, aneurysms which originate from distal portion of PICA are very rare.
(5) The death rate was high (4 (14%) of the 29 admissions and 3 (21%) of the admissions associated with pica).
(6) The second case had a large thrombosed aneurysm in the left vertebral artery compressing the medulla oblongata, with small perforators originating from the proximal posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) feeding the brainstem.
(7) The aetiopathogenesis of pica is discussed as well as its role in the development of necrotising enteritis.
(8) The direct PICA supply comes from a trigeminal trunk.
(9) The authors present a case of dissecting aneurysm of the right posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) in a 47-year-old female, who suffered from mild subarachnoid hemorrhage.
(10) In addition to providing a demonstration of "psychological" involvement in the etiology of pica, these results indicate that visceral conditioning may accompany the formation of conditioned taste aversions.
(11) Certain variations will cause an unusual but normal enlargement of the vessel in a specific portion of its course; these variations include vertebral artery duplication, a C-1 or C-2 vertebral origin of the PICA, a C-1 or C-2 occipital origin of the PICA, and an intradural course of the vertebral artery at C-2.
(12) A case of macroglossia following neck clipping of VA-PICA aneurysm is described.
(13) A significant correlation between serotypes defined by reactivity of immune sera in PICA and inhibition of melanoma cell binding (MCB) was observed.
(14) The arterial territories involved were the superior cerebellar artery (SCA) in 13 cases (alone in 8 cases), the anterior inferior cerebellar artery in 2 cases, the posterior inferior cerebellar artery (PICA) in 17 cases (alone in 13 cases) and border areas in 5 cases (associated with SCA or PICA).
(15) Thus, eating of nonnutritive substances such as kaolin, so-called pica, is an illness-response behavior of rats analogous to vomiting in humans.
(16) The majority of descriptions of pica have dealt with its occurrence in children, in pregnant women, and as a societal practice in certain cultures studied from a medico-anthropologic point of view.
(17) Although pica is a common manifestation of iron deficiency, this appears to be the first reported case of salt pica secondary to iron deficiency.
(18) Abnormal eating behaviors such as pica or coprophagy are usually caused by a dietary imbalance or boredom.
(19) The language skills of 11 aphasic patients were assessed through the use of the PICA.
(20) The relationship of mineral deficiency to pica and anorexia nervosa is discussed.
Pici
Definition:
(n. pl.) A division of birds including the woodpeckers and wrynecks.
(pl. ) of Picus
Example Sentences:
(1) Methanol positive ion chemical ionization (PICI) spectra were recorded for cyclophosphamide, diaziquone, mitomycin C and thiotepa.
(2) Methane PICI spectra of thiotepa were obtained in the absence of methanol as a mobile-phase modifier.
(3) Moreover, with the same or even improved limits of detection the ITD can operate in the PICI mode.
(4) Selected ion monitoring in the PIEI mode generally gave much higher sensitivity than in the PICI and NICI modes.
(5) In the PICI mode, all compounds showed [M + 1]+ quasi-molecular ions constituting the base peaks.
(6) The positive ion electron impact (PIEI), positive ion chemical ionization (PICI) and negative ion chemical ionization (NICI) mass spectra and a rapid isolation procedure using Sep-Pak C18 cartridges are presented for ten local anaesthetics.
(7) Positive-ion electron impact (PIEI), positive-ion chemical ionization (PICI) and negative-ion chemical ionization (NICI) mass spectra of 9 carbamate pesticides are presented.
(8) The electron ionization (EI) and positive-ion chemical ionization (PICI) mass spectra of the methoxime-trimethylsilyl, trimethylsilyl-enol trimethylsilyl ether and pentafluoropropionic ester derivatives of NA are described.
(9) The total ion current in the PIEI and PICI modes generally gave higher sensitivity than in the NICI mode.
(10) Positive ion electron impact (PIEI), positive ion chemical ionization (PICI), and negative ion chemical ionization (NICI) mass spectra of seven compounds of hydantoins and their analogs are presented; their probable fragmentation modes are also presented.
(11) Positive-ion electron impact (PIEI), positive-ion chemical ionization (PICI) and negative-ion chemical ionization (NICI) mass spectra of 19 phenothiazines are presented.
(12) In the PICI mode, most spectra showed base or intense peaks due to M + H, and small peaks due to M + C2H5; peaks due to M - R1 + 2H and R1 also appeared in many compounds.
(13) In the PICI mode, peaks due to M + H and M + C2H5 appeared.