pedicle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pedicle
1555–65; < Latin pediculus, diminutive of pēs (stem ped- ) foot. See pedi-, -cle 1
Example Sentences
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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 paired transverse process projects laterally and arises from the junction point between the pedicle and lamina.
From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013
Each pedicle forms one of the lateral sides of the vertebral arch.
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
At the first stage, the pouch is isolated and rotated on its pedicle, in which condition it is fixed by sutures; after an interval of from ten to fourteen days it is excised.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander
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