01 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…
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Spicae ((#))
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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.(Med.)
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A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.(Astron.)