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/ˈpɛd.ɪ.kəl/ · noun
(zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate..
A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."
His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.
--Figure 3. Fig. 4, Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder.
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.
One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
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.
The surface of the extracellular space at the base of the cone pedicle in goldfish has been estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 µm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used [ C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al., Vision Res.
1836 The Memoirs, Private and Political, of Daniel O'Connell In the account of former persecutions, I have read of decapitation, crucifixion, gallowses, manacles, pedicles, thumb- screws, fire and fagot, rocks and pullies, slow fires, red hot gridirons, and boiling lead;
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Pedicle means (zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate..
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A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."
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