English Dictionary

pedicle

/ˈpɛdɪkəl/

noun

(zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate. / (zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.

The surgeon carefully dissected the pedicle to ensure proper blood flow.

意味（1）

(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.

意味（2）

(zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.

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

意味（3）

A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue

--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.

意味（4）

pedicel (any sense)

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

意味（5）

peduncle (any sense)

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.

意味（6）

(surgery) Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.

意味（7）

A fetter for the foot.