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English
Etymology
From Latin plica (“plica”) + feminine singular form of Polonicus (“Polish”).
Noun
plica polonica (uncountable)
- (medicine, now chiefly historical) A condition characterised by matted and unhygienic hair.
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.