Category:Spica

Spi"ca, n.; pl. Spicæ. Etym: [l., an ear, as of corn.]

1. (med.)

Defn: 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. (astron.)

Defn: a star of the first magnitude situated in the constellation Virgo.