See Also: Spica(medicine)
spica(dictionary)
spica bandage(medicine)

spica (iou)



spica noun. LME.
[Latin = ear of grain. In sense 3 after Greek stakhus.]
oil of spica, = oil of spike s.v. SPIKE noun2. Only in LME.
Botany. A flower-spike. Now rare or obsolete. L17.
Medicine. A bandage folded into a spiral arrangement resembling an ear of wheat or barley. M18.