pedicle

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a…

   A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.

   • 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."
2. 2

   The attachment point for antlers in cervids.

   • His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.
3. 3

   A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue

   • --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.
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   1. 4

      pedicel (any sense)

      • One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
   2. 5

      peduncle (any sense)

      • 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.
   3. 6

      Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.

   4. 7

      A fetter for the foot.

      • two emaciated and thread-bare prisoners are bound with manacles and pedicles to the middle of a wall about four stories high in an immense featureless white room

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