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

brutism (iou) and Spica (medicine)


brutism (iou)



brutism noun. L17.
[from BRUTE noun + -ISM.]
The behaviour or condition of a brute.

Spica (medicine)


spica


Origin: L, an ear, as of corn.

1. <medicine> 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.

2. <astronomy> A star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.

Source: Websters Dictionary