(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.
Spica
Definition:
(n.) A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; -- so called from its resemblance to a spike of a barley.
(n.) A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.
Example Sentences:
(1) Patients were discharged with a hip spica when the fracture site was nontender (average three weeks).
(2) A lightweight fiberglass spica has proven to be useful after repair of the deltoid origin, repair of complete rupture of the rotator cuff, and shoulder arthrodesis.
(3) In this experimental study, 18 beagles were immobilized in a shoulder spica for periods of time ranging from 6 to 32 weeks and then remobilized.
(4) A review was made of 20 of 27 consecutively treated patients under 9 years of age with femoral shaft fractures treated by early application of bilateral fixed skin traction spica cast.
(5) We recommend initial nonoperative treatment with hip spica cast immobilization for this type of fracture in the very young child.
(6) A shoulder spica cast is often required after major surgery to the shoulder.
(7) The patients were immobilized in a spica cast for six weeks postoperatively.
(8) The condition was successfully treated by conservative measures including a plaster hip spica allowing frequent changes of position.
(9) When there is segmental instability of the pelvis that cannot be controlled by conventional methods of pelvic slings or spica casts or when associated injuries preclude the use of these methods, then the treatment of choice should be external fixation.
(10) Data from the study support our opinion that the immediate spica system is the treatment of choice for these fractures and that traction methods should probably be abandoned as definitive treatment of a femoral shaft fracture in a child.
(11) Immobilization for up to 60 weeks was achieved by placing the forelimb in a spica cast and remobilization by removing it.
(12) Thus the results of closed reduction and hip spica are unfavorable, compared with those of nontreated cases.
(13) Older methods of treatment, i.e., prolonged traction, offer no advantage over early spica immobilization and markedly increase the hospitalization time and expense.
(14) Thumb spica cast immobilization was maintained for an average of 8 weeks, followed by thumb spica orthoplast splintage on a part time basis.
(15) The treatment included closed reduction and immobilization in a spica cast.
(16) These findings have led us to abandon the use of a spica cast as a mode of treatment for slipped capital femoral epiphysis.
(17) The most dangerous causative factors include forced reduction under general anesthesia, spica cast immobilization of the hips in the Lorenz or Lange position, insufficient continuous prereduction traction, and splints or braces that are either too rigid or that force the hip into an extreme position.
(18) Thirteen patients who had seventeen slipped capital femoral epiphyses were managed with a spica cast between 1984 and 1986.
(19) Techniques for managing traumatic diastasis of the pubic symphysis include bed rest, hip spica casting, pelvic slings, external fixation, and internal fixation.
(20) In four of the earlier cases there was a Schanz's screw infection and three of these required removal of the external fixation and treatment in a hip spica.