plica polonica

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English

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Etymology

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From Latin plica (“plica”) + feminine singular form of Polonicus (“Polish”).

Noun

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plica polonica (uncountable)

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