plica polonica
English
Noun
plica polonica (uncountable)
- (medicine, now chiefly historical) A condition characterised by matted and unhygienic hair. [from 17th c.]
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XXXII:
- And perhaps the very essence of the Plica Polonica may be the hairs growing hollow, and of an unnatural constitution.
- 1665, Robert Hooke, Micrographica, XXXII:
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