Pedicle

Quick meaning: Pedicle is a noun meaning (zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.

Meaning

(zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
2. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
3. pedicel (any sense)
4. peduncle (any sense)
5. (surgery) Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
6. A fetter for the foot.

Example Sentences

One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.

His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.

One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous.

The chimpanzee Heschl's gyrus homolog also showed evidence of a strongly excavated middle Heschl's sulcus, within the confines of a single gyral pedicle, predominantly in the right hemisphere.

Word Forms

• pedicles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include apodeme, brachiophore, brachidium, brach, pedicel, aditicule.

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