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• That was the news out of Missouri's spring football practice Tuesday, Washington's first appearance since a February surgery to repair the meniscus in his left knee and remove the plica in that same knee. —  Kansas City Star: Front Page
• I am having my plica removed, am i going to need crutches? en Español —  Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions
• The term Multiple Sclerosis comes from the Latin multus plus plica meaning "fold", and the Greek sklerosis meaning "hardening". —  Health News from Medical News Today
• 'Botanical Text Book CHAPTER I MULTIPLICATION OF AXILE ORGANS, INFLORESCENCE, ETC By Linné an undue number of branches was designated as "plica," from the analogy with the disease of the hair known as plica polonica: "_Plicata dicitur planta, cum arbor vel ramus excrescit minimis intertextis ramulis, tanquam plica polonica ex pilis, ceu instar nidi Picć, quod vulgo a genio ortum arbitratur; frequens apud nos in Betula, prćsertim Norlandić, in Carpino Scanić, nec infrequens in Pinu._"[379 By some of the older authors this condition was called polyclady. —  Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
• The English word "Simple," composed of two Latin words, Singula plica (a single fold), means "Singleness," whether of material or purpose From primitive times the term "Herbal Simple" has been applied to any homely curative remedy consisting of one ingredient only, and that of a vegetable nature. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure

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