Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Biology A small stalk or stalklike structure, especially one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part.
- noun A slender footlike or stemlike part, as at the base of a tumor.
- noun Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A foot-iron. Compare
manacle (originallymanicle ). - noun A pedicel or peduncle.
- noun Specifically — The bony process supporting the antler of the Cervidæ, or deer family.
- noun The foot of the neural arch of a vertebra, usually a contracted part of such an arch (in comparison with its lamina), whereby the arch joins the body or centrum of the vertebra. The pedicles of any two contiguous vertebræ circumscribe the intervertebral foramina for the exit of spinal nerves. Synonyms See
peduncle .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Same as
pedicel .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun zoology A
fleshy line used to attach andanchor brachiopods and somebivalve molluscs to asubstrate . - noun zoology The attachment point for
antlers incervids . - noun A
stalk that attaches atumour to normal tissue
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
Etymologies
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Examples
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The screws used to drill into bone, known as pedicle screws, sell for $1,000 to $2,000 apiece but cost less than $100 to make.
Top Spine Surgeons Reap Royalties, Medicare Bounty John Carreyrou 2010
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Jerdon gives the size of the horn 8 to 10 inches, but in this he doubtless included the pedicle, which is about 5 inches, and the horns, from 2 to 5 inches.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870
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One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
The Mason-Bees Jean-Henri Fabre 1869
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The screws used to drill into bone, known as pedicle screws, sell for $1,000 to $2,000 apiece but cost less than $100
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The screws used to drill into bone, known as pedicle screws, sell for $1,000 to $2,000 apiece but cost less than $100
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These two body segments are connected with a small waist called the pedicle or the pregenital somite.
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These two body segments are connected with a small waist called the pedicle or the pregenital somite.
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The ureter as a pedicle for construction of a ureteral urethra: The Double Tunnel.
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The abdominal tissue is tunneled underneath the skin to the chest (pedicle flap), or surgically transplanted there utilizing a microscope (free flap).
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Reconstructive Surgery: What are Your Options After Breast Cancer? M.D. Robert Tornambe 2010
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The abdominal tissue is tunneled underneath the skin to the chest (pedicle flap), or surgically transplanted there utilizing a microscope (free flap).
Robert Tornambe, M.D.: Reconstructive Surgery: What are Your Options After Breast Cancer? M.D. Robert Tornambe 2010
fbharjo commented on the word pedicle
'to be on a pedicel - the ultimate peduncle
March 13, 2012