pedicle
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of pedicle
1555–65; < Latin pediculus, diminutive of pēs (stem ped- ) foot. See pedi-, -cle 1
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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
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.
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 pedicle is slender, smooth, and transparent, and branches sparsely at its distal extremity.
From Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901 by Gary N. (Gary Nathan) Calkins
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