Pedicle

//ˈpɛd.ɪ.kəl// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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
    a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle wordnet
  3. 3
    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."

  4. 4
    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."

  5. 5
    pedicel (any sense)

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

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  1. 6
    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."

  2. 7
    Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
  3. 8
    A fetter for the foot.

Etymology

From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.

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