(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.
Virgo
Definition:
(n.) A sign of the zodiac which the sun enters about the 21st of August, marked thus [/] in almanacs.
(n.) A constellation of the zodiac, now occupying chiefly the sign Libra, and containing the bright star Spica.
Example Sentences:
(1) We subjected individuals of four species of cranes (Anthropoides virgo, Balearica regulorum, Grus grus and Grus japonensis) to acute heat stress to investigate the effectiveness of this trait as a thermoregulatory adaptation.
(2) The HTLV-III Bio-EnzaBead (Litton Bionetics, Charleston, SC) was less sensitive and specific than the Abbott HTLV-III EIA (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) or the Virgo HTLV-III ELISA (Electro-Nucleonics Inc., Columbia, MD).
(3) The results showed that bromoacetamide was fairly effective against Ganesella virgo, the intermediate host of Dicrocoelium chinensis and Eurytrema pancreaticum.
(4) (Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands) Ms Elizabeth Virgo.
(5) Photograph: Tony Virgo Imagine There’s No Ben Target (It’s Easy If You Try) Heroes @ The Hive, to 30 Aug I hear that Ben Target is doing an art installation piece this year but it’s also comedy, that means I don’t know quite what to expect so I’m excited.
(6) It is proposed that Moraba virgo, the only all-female grasshopper, originated by hybridisation between two extant species P169 and P196.
(7) Such an origin accounts for M. virgo's peculiar karyotype and pattern of late replication.
(8) Two commercial monoclonal antibody kits (Virgo and Mikrotrak for the identification of Herpes simplex virus (HSV) have been assessed.
(9) The kits tested were 5 ELISAs: Roche Diagnostica (Basel), Hoechst Enzygnostic (Sao Paulo), Virgo Electronuclionics (Columbia MD), Organon Teknika (Boxtel, Netherlands), Salck Industria e Comercio de Produtos Biologicos (Sao Paulo), and a passive hemagglutination test, (Salck Ind), and indirect immunofluorescence IIF (Virgo electronucleonics, Columbia), a dot blot (Embrabio, Empressa Brasiliera de Biotecnologia Ltda, Sao Paolo) and Karpas AIDS cell test, Fujichemical Industries Ltd (Chokeiji, Takaoka, Japan).
(10) This study compared conventional viral isolation (VI) in cell cultures with a commercial product--Virgo antigen detection system--for the identification and typing of herpes simplex virus (HSV).
(11) November sees it speed through southern Virgo to pass 17 arcminutes N of Spica on the 18th when it may be a fifth magnitude naked eye object, though low in Britain's SE sky before dawn.
(12) This paper reports results of comparative analyses of relative variability carried out on the obligate thelytokous grasshopper Warramaba virgo (Key) and three closely related sexually reproducing species.
(13) "Nice to see, even in the heat of battle", intones John Virgo as though he's said it seventy-three billion times before.
(14) A case report on a 26-year-old virgo intacta with a long standing history of pruritus vulvi, obstructive pulmonary disease, and chronic diarrhea presenting with an invasive squamous carcinoma of the vulva in association with chronic malabsorption and T-lymphocyte deficiency.
(15) The Virgo kit identified 37 strains (57%) as HSV2, and did not identify the remaining 3 (5%).