(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.
Spicy
Definition:
(superl.) Flavored with, or containing, spice or spices; fragrant; aromatic; as, spicy breezes.
(superl.) Producing, or abounding with, spices.
(superl.) Fig.: Piquant; racy; as, a spicy debate.
Example Sentences:
(1) She ushers us into the kitchen, where a large metal pot simmering on the hotplate emits a spicy aroma.
(2) It was a sunny Friday night by the seaside, and the atmosphere was spicy with sweat, lager and marijuana smoke.
(3) Heartburn was induced by a meal consisting of chili, black coffee, and a spicy tomato drink mix.
(4) The latter of these focus on the things Chile does best: wine and pisco, the local brandy with a grassy colour and spicy-sweet taste.
(5) Patients with gastroesophageal reflux often describe heartburn after "spicy meals."
(6) We walk down the narrow alley lined with boutiques, past carts selling tteokbokki , the ubiquitous gelatinous rice cakes swimming in a spicy red sauce (which taste much nicer than they sound).
(7) Fried foods, "spicy" foods, and alcohol were the most common precipitating factors.
(8) The Ned Waihopai River Sauvignon Blanc, Marlborough, New Zealand (£9.99, Waitrose ; Majestic ) There's all the pungent verdant grass-and-gooseberry of classic Kiwi sauvignon here to match with asparagus, plus the generosity of fruit and limey acidity that will work just as well with a mildly spicy and herby Vietnamese or Thai stir-fry.
(9) In the last few years my wife and I have gone off going out as much as we used to, but if I did, it would be something spicy, or a really nice Chinese.
(10) Waiting for them, bobbing in oil, are the deals: three spicy wings with regular fries for £1, two pieces of chicken and chips for £2; or the "student special": one piece of chicken, regular fries plus a can of Pepsi, also for £2.
(11) He could often be seen eating spicy lamb chops at his favourite curry houses, flattering local businessmen and speaking irreverently about parliamentary colleagues.
(12) With its brightly punchy tomato sauce, good mound of rocket, decent if sparingly distributed mozzarella and porky, spicy salsiccia sausage, my sampler largely backed up such hype.
(13) The recipes veer from the incredibly simple, such as stir-fried potato slithers with chillies to the more elaborate, such as dry-braised fish with pork in spicy sauce.
(14) Note, too, how many manuals of eating are termed "bibles": in the cult of "nutritionism" we have Patrick Holford's Optimum Nutrition Bible and Gillian McKeith's Food Bible , and there also exist a Baby Food Bible , a Whole Food Bible , a Gluten-Free Bible , a Party Food Bible , a Spicy Food Lover's Bible , and so on ad nauseam or perhaps ad astra.
(15) The typhoon shelter was famous for its restaurants' cuisine – including Under Bridge Spicy Crab – and it was a nightlife hub, alive with mahjong games and hired singers.
(16) From a rich Indonesian rendang to a smoky Indian aubergine side dish, the ones I finally picked certainly didn't disappoint, but it was the unusual sweet and sour flavours of Angela Kim's Keralan vegetable sambar that really grabbed my attention – surely the perfect spicy, comforting Sunday supper.
(17) A plate of plump, pan-fried gnocchi with peppery, spicy ground pork was simple but full of good, accurate flavours.
(18) Mexican hot chocolate Spicy and nice: thejameskitchen's Mexican dark hot chocolate drink.
(19) Spiced cornbread EverydayVeg's spicy cornbread is easily packed and great for sharing.
(20) Ordering a procession of dishes to share over a long afternoon's grazing is the perfect way to go here: try crunchy cubes of fried tapioca with a sweet and spicy dipping sauce, and out-of-this-world torresmo (meaty, homemade pork scratchings, £1.30).