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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.


pedicle British  
/ ˈpɛdɪkəl /

noun

  1. biology any small stalk; pedicel; peduncle

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of pedicle

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

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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.

From New York Times May 10, 2022

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

It is only in those cases where the edges of the tumor overlap the short pedicle that the latter cannot be observed.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 648, June 2, 1888. by Various

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