Usage examples (20)

• Any spicule, any prominence, would long since have either fallen back into the chromosphere, or blown away entirely…but not this thing.
• In other cases secondary hæmorrhage was the result of perforation of the vessel by a sharp spicule of bone, but in the large majority sepsis and suppuration were the cause.
• The ice storm was no longer the gusting, swirling fog of that morning but a driving wall of stiletto-tipped spears, near-lethal in its ferocity, highspeed ice-spicule...
• Milam AH (1995) Histopathology of bone spicule pigmentation in retinitis pigmentosa.