Pedicle

From Latin pedÄ«culus ("little foot"), diminutive of pÄ“s.

Full definition of pedicle

(plural pedicles)

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

1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book Chapter , 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."

1910, John T. McCutcheon, In Africa Chapter , His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.

1859, Joseph Maclise, Surgical Anatomy Chapter , --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.
1896, George M. Gould, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine Chapter , 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.
1914, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, The Mason-bees Chapter , One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
January 9, 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.
May 11, 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 Âµm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al., Vision Res.