Sentence examples for the pica from inspiring English sources
noun
A disorder characterized by craving and appetite for non-edible substances, such as ice, clay, chalk, dirt, or sand.
Bira, however, had not just presented with the pica, but also her obsession with the mud before she ate it.
At lunch, you can order the pica pollo ($7) separately, with rice and soupy, fragrant red beans.
With partitioning and reconfiguration, the proposed reconfigurable FPGA system overcomes the capacity constraints for the pICA implementation on embedded systems.
It suggests that the PICA composites with lower density may significantly contribute to improving the thermal insulation and ablative properties.
As reported in literature, the PICA is the most frequent causative vessel, which compressed the root entry zone of the glossopharyngeal nerve in our series.
Figure 11 Influence of P in spectral concentration (SC), estimated frequency ( f ^ p ) and kurtosis (kurt) for the piCA algorithm ( i P ˜ means initial period in samples).
Armed with a pair of 8-pound weights and the picas, Harris lies on the carpet of a room in his condominium and does a series of exercises designed to keep him strong and flexible.
López wore a blue shirt with the word "Pica" on the front and his wife, Camelia Garrido, wore a corresponding red shirt that read "Power".
The algorithms piCA and pSAD use the pseudoperiodic property of the atrial activity in time domain.
The Harvard-Oxford Cortical structural atlas were used to identify the anatomical characteristics of the resulting PICA maps.
— Eric Asimov The Washington Post: Hospitalizations have nearly doubled in the last 10 years for pica, the mysterious compulsion to eat dirt, ashes, chalk, soap and other inedible substances.
