Craving non-food substances is called pica. From Wordnik.com. [The Simple Guide to Having a Baby] Reference
In 1886, the American Point System established a "pica" as being 0.166 inches. From Wordnik.com. [Original Signal - Transmitting Buzz] Reference
"pica" robot object is the message receiver. "east" is the message selector. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-09-01] Reference
They talk about pica in the linked article. rartef. From Wordnik.com. [The Silverware Swallower] Reference
I trust you wife will make the tamales pica bastante. From Wordnik.com. [Tamales con hoja de papatla y capuline para tomar] Reference
Monday, Mar. 23, 2009 - pica pica: bully and cannibal. From Wordnik.com. [kelsi Diary Entry] Reference
“Las agua vivas no te pica,” the captain said calmly. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-09-01] Reference
I have pica, so I don't mind that they are made of rubber. From Wordnik.com. [Time for a new post] Reference
To me, bread, donuts, cake and ice cream are pica, not food. From Wordnik.com. [Another reason to limit the TV time of overweight kids | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
Never having heard the modismo "que le pica más el sabor ...". From Wordnik.com. [English joke of the month to translate into Spanish] Reference
Nutter has pica, they say, and eats silver; it turned him blue. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarus argentatus] Reference
Do you think she may have pica or is it just a preschooler thing?. From Wordnik.com. [Is a 3-yr-old who eats paper normal?] Reference
Nutter has pica, they say, and eats silver; it turned him blue. From Wordnik.com. [Lazarus argentatus] Reference
Some children also eat dirt on purpose; this behavior is called pica. From Wordnik.com. [Public Health Statement for Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCBs)] Reference
It was based on the pica size most extensively in use in this country. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
You might pica slightly less emphatic phrasing, just for forme's sake. From Wordnik.com. [Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it] Reference
This pica was divided into twelve equal parts and each part called a point. From Wordnik.com. [The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing] Reference
Note especially this part: Transient pica is very common in normal children. From Wordnik.com. [Is a 3-yr-old who eats paper normal?] Reference
Printed on small-pica it would run to eight hundred pages, and could never pay. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley] Reference
In python this could be something like, "pica.drawPolygonnumberOfSides=10, size=2". From Wordnik.com. [smalltalk: philosophy, metaphor, semantics, syntax] Reference
Many scanned pictures you can find at my blogit's my hobby, im no artist and my pica-page. From Wordnik.com. [Cumberland, Part 4: Final Art] Reference
Also, for someone to actually have a case of pica, the following DSM criteria need to be met. From Wordnik.com. [Is a 3-yr-old who eats paper normal?] Reference
Never ever eat a printers pi, you may em, en or be a pica, otherwise you will be hot leaden it. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: HOT-TYPE MEMORIES.] Reference
Leads were usually measured in points and half points 12 points in a pica, six picas in an inch. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?] Reference
Becuase sometimes an elk is a deer and sometimes a moose, but an alces alces is never a pica pica. From Wordnik.com. [Elg, elk, moose] Reference
Leads were usually measured in points and half points (12 points in a pica, six picas in an inch). From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?] Reference
Despite these difficulties, Juana runs a successful pica pollo, or fried chicken stand. From Wordnik.com. [Kiva Loans] Reference
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