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pedicle

[ped-i-kuhl]

noun

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



pedicle

/ ˈpɛdɪkəl /

noun

  1. biology any small stalk; pedicel; peduncle

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Word History and Origins

Origin of pedicle1

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

Origin of pedicle1

C17: from Latin pedīculus small foot; see pedicel
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Example Sentences

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Some time after the pedicle reached its intended destination, he quit medicine, bounced around a series of Buddhist monasteries in India, changed his name to Jivaka and settled down to write his autobiography.

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I hope that this operation included a posterior Cranio-Cervical Fusion, usually done with pedicle screws & contoured rods.

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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.

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They may sink into the pelvis and block the channel of delivery needed by the child at term; they may have their pedicles twisted, and thus become gangrenous and septic.

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V. Tufted Muntjacs, Genus Elaphodus.—Nearly related to the last, but the antlers still smaller, with shorter pedicles and divergent frontal ridges; upper canines of male not everted at the tips.

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