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PLICA
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Irregular inflected form: plicae
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A folded part (as in skin or muscle)
Synonyms:
fold; plica
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("plica" is a kind of...):
anatomical structure; bodily structure; body structure; complex body part; structure (a particular complex anatomical part of a living thing and its construction and arrangement)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "plica"):
epicanthic fold; epicanthus (a vertical fold of skin over the nasal canthus; typical for many east Asian peoples; sometimes occurs in Down's syndrome)
plica vocalis; vocal band; vocal cord; vocal fold (either of two pairs of folds of mucous membrane projecting into the larynx)
ruga ((anatomy) a fold or wrinkle or crease)
tentorium ((anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum)
