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Folded part
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plica
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Plica (from Latin plica - fold) is a term from sigillography for the reinforcement of the lower edge of a charter or deed , produced by folding up the bottom of the sheet of parchment to achieve a double thickness. The purpose of the fold is to provide ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a folded part (as a fold of skin or muscle) [syn: fold ] [also: plicae (pl)]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plica \Pli"ca\, n. [LL., a fold, fr. L. plicare to fold. See Ply , v.] (Med.) A disease of the hair (Plica polonica), in which it becomes twisted and matted together. The disease is of Polish origin, and is hence called also Polish plait . --Dunglison. ...
Usage examples of plica.
In six minutes, the plica semilunaris so drawn as to cover half the cornea.
The plica semilunaris as a vestige of the nictitating membrane of certain birds.
Hercules de Saxonia and Thomas Minadous, in 1610, speak of plica as a disease already long known.
Kalschmidt of Jena possessed the pubes of a woman dead of plica, the hair of which was of such length that it must have easily gone around the body.
Alarmed or taught by such occurrences, the common people often went about all their lives with the plica gradually dropping off.
Formerly there was much theorizing and discussion regarding the etiology and pathology of plica, but since this mysterious affection has been proved to be nothing more than the product of neglect, and the matting due to the inflammatory exudation, excited by innumerable pediculi, agglutinating the hair together, the term is now scarcely mentioned in dermatologic works.