Usually means: Bandage wrapping from foot upward.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. Spica, spica: Merriam-Webster
  2. Spica, spica: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Spica, spica: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. spica: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Spica: Vocabulary.com
  6. Spica, spica: Wordnik
  7. Spica, spica: Wiktionary
  8. spica: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. Spica: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. spica: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Spica: Dictionary.com
  12. Spica: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. SPICA (spacecraft), SPICA, Spica (band), Spica (disambiguation), Spica (group), Spica (moth), Spica: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Spica: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. spica: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Spica: Rhymezone
  17. Spica: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. spica: FreeDictionary.org
  19. spica: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Spica: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Spica: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. spica: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. spica: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)
  2. SPICA: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. spica: Dictionary of Botanical Epithets
  2. Spica: Extragalactic Astronomy

(Note: See spicae as well.)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Spica)

▸ noun:  (botany) A spike.
▸ noun:  (ornithology) A spur.
▸ noun:  A kind of bandage passing, by successive turns and crosses, from an extremity to the trunk; a spiral bandage with reversed turns.
▸ noun:  (astronomy) A binary star in the constellation Virgo; alpha (α) Virginis.

Similar:
spicula, spicule, fruitspike, spire, spikelet, spike, sporange, spadix, spathe, spiculum, more...

Opposite:
antares, arcturus, betelgeuse

Types:
wheat, rye, barley, oats, triticale, buckwheat, millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, more...

Phrases:
lavandula spica, spica bandage, modified spica splint, more...

Adjectives:
double, single, short, bright, long, bilateral, hip, albo, lavandula, half, white
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Similar:
spicula, spicule, fruitspike, spire, spikelet, spike, sporange, spadix, spathe, spiculum, more...

Opposite:
antares, arcturus, betelgeuse

Types:
wheat, rye, barley, oats, triticale, buckwheat, millet, sorghum, teff, quinoa, more...

Phrases:
lavandula spica, spica bandage, modified spica splint, more...

Adjectives:
double, single, short, bright, long, bilateral, hip, albo, lavandula, half, white



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