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What is a plica?

What is a plica? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A fold or crease, especially of skin or other tissue.
  2. Polish plait, plica polonica, or plica neuropatica; a disease of the hair in which it becomes twisted and matted together.
  3. (botany) A diseased state in plants in which there is an excessive development of small entangled twigs, instead of ordinary branches.
  4. (zoology) The bend of the wing of a bird.
  5. (music) A neume, in the form of a tail at the end of a ligature, indicating an additional note.
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At the same time he wrote a treatise on plica Polonica, which was highly commended.
It continued sick for a considerable time, and, on its convalescence the plica broke out in its entire coat.
Vocal cord, Latin plica vocalis, either of two folds of mucous membrane that extend across the interior cavity of the larynx and are primarily responsible for voice production.
The different names given to the plica indicate more or less the ideas that prevail regarding its nature.
It might be stricken with dry-rot, elephantiasis and plica polonica for ought I care.
This is called the plica semilunaris, or the nictitating membrane.

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