pedicle

American  

[ped-i-kuhl] / ˈpɛd ɪ kəl /

noun

Zoology.

1. a small stalk or stalklike support, as the connection between the cephalothorax and abdomen in certain arachnids.

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pedicle British  

/ ˈpɛdɪkəl /

noun

1. biology any small stalk; pedicel; peduncle

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Etymology

Origin of pedicle

1555–65; < Latin pediculus, diminutive of pēs (stem ped- ) foot. See pedi-, -cle ¹

Example Sentences

For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.

From New York Times • May 10, 2022

Each pedicle forms one of the lateral sides of the vertebral arch.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Each paired transverse process projects laterally and arises from the junction point between the pedicle and lamina.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

The treatment given is to fit a "nose pedicle" – flesh taken off the man's chest, rolled into a tube and sewn on to the face – and to wait to see if it takes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012

It throws out a pedicle or foot stalk in the course of the second or third week, the leaves of which are of similar shape to that of the Guinea grass.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

Related Words

• trunk
• twig