Meaning of pedicle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
2. The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
3. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
4. pedicel (any sense)
5. peduncle (any sense)
6. Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
7. A fetter for the foot.

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Examples

“A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."”

“His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.”

“--Figure⟳ 3. Fig. 4, Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder.”

“One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become⟳ twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous.”

“One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.”

“The chimpanzee Heschl's gyrus homolog also showed evidence of a strongly excavated middle Heschl's sulcus, within the confines of a single gyral pedicle, predominantly in the right hemisphere.”

“The surface of the extracellular space at the base⟳ of the cone pedicle in goldfish has been estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 µm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used [ C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al., Vision Res.”

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