Crossword-Solution: PLICA
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plica | v. | 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. |
| Plica | v. | A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches. |
| Plica | v. | The bend of the wing of a bird. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PLICA | anagram | ACLIP |
We have 8 clues for the answer “PLICA”
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| A fold. | 1 answer |
| Fold of skin | 1 answer |
| Folded part | 1 answer |
| Groove or fold | 1 answer |
| Skin fold | 1 answer |
| Tissue fold | 1 answer |
| anatomical fold | 2 answers |
| Fold | 52 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEMZAC
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eruption
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Sentences with PLICA (5)
The Ephemerides contains the account of a woman who had hair from the mons veneris which hung to the knees; it was affected with plica polonica, as was also the other hair of the body.
Briefly these are:-- (1) The plica semilunaris as a vestige of the nictitating membrane of certain birds.
Plica polonica, or, as it was known in Cracow--weicselzopf, is a disease peculiar to Poland, or to those of Polish antecedents, characterized by the agglutination, tangling, and anomalous development of the hair, or by an alteration of the nails, which become spongy and blackish.
Plica has always been more frequent on the banks of the Vistula and Borysthenes, in damp and marshy situations, than in other parts of Poland.
Plica began after an attack of acute fever, with pains like those of acute rheumatism in the head and extremities, and possibly vertigo, tinnitus aurium, ophthalmia, or coryza.
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Appears in: NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 9 times in crossword archives (1945–2017).