(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.
Picra
Definition:
(n.) The powder of aloes with canella, formerly officinal, employed as a cathartic.
Example Sentences:
(1) A new technique using postoperative infusional continuous regional analgesia (PICRA) for postoperative pain relief was investigated in 23 surgical patients treated by amputation (12 patients) or by limb-salvage resection operations (11 patients).
(2) Eleven of the 23 patients on PICRA required no supplemental narcotic agents.
(3) Overall, the patients on PICRA had an 80% reduction of narcotic requirements when compared to the historical controls.
(4) The mean level of the narcotic agents required by the remaining 13 PICRA patients was approximately one third of that required by the matched group of 11 patients receiving epidural morphine.