(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.
Spick
Definition:
(n.) A spike or nail.
Example Sentences:
(1) But the spick and span stadium:mk, with its executive-standard padded seats throughout, holds 30,000.
(2) Turn left into the village at the Bay Horse, then take the second lane on the left and follow brown signs This spick-and-span, friendly farm has a farmyard full of toys to ride, from tots' scuttlebugs to grown-ups' go-karts.
(3) The Brontë Society keeps the Parsonage [now a museum] incredibly spick and span.