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The forms of it (the bandage?) are the simple, the slightly winding (called ascia), the sloping (sima), the monoculus, the rhombus, and the semi-rhombus.
On The Surgery 2007
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For this is the most complex of all the forms of bandaging, having most of the turns of the bandage called “ascia,” and rhomboidal intervals and uncovered spaces of the skin.
On The Articulations 2007
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I thought that Hannibal had succeeded not by aceto, but aceta, which in the Latin of Padua might well be the same as ascia; and who can guarantee the text to be free from the blunders of the copyist?
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Latin of Padua might well be the same as ascia; and who can guarantee the text to be free from the blunders of the copyist?
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 10: under the Leads Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Latin of Padua might well be the same as ascia; and who can guarantee the text to be free from the blunders of the copyist?
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Rogum _ascia ne Polito_ says the law of the twelve tables.
A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755
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Cot.] [Footnote 30: _? ascia_, a dyse, Vocab. in _Reliq.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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Ant. _ v. 1, p. 8, col. 1; _ascia_, 1. an axe; (2.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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