Crossword clues for pedicle
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pedicle \Ped"i*cle\, n. [L. pediculus a little foot, dim. of pes foot: cf. F. p['e]dicule. See edal, and cf. Pedicel.] Same as Pedicel.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"footstalk of a plant," 1620s, from Latin pediculus "footstalk, little foot," diminutive of pedem (nominative pes) "foot" (see foot (n.)).
Wiktionary
n. (context zoology English) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
WordNet
n. a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle [syn: pedicel]
Wikipedia
Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:
Usage examples of "pedicle".
The small pedicle or cord-like mass of vessels that supplies the tumor, are then carefully treated after a plan invented by, and peculiar to, ourselves, which effectually prevents any bleeding, and, at the same time, does not leave any irritating substance, such as burned and charred flesh, rubber, silk, or any other unabsorbable material, within the abdomen.
He shouted to her to remove it, and frantically groped in the depths of the geyser with his clamp, hoping to recapture the spouting pedicle by mere blind chance.
Egg-shaped as I have said, the wider end was undermost, resting in a broad cup upheld by a slender pedicle silvery-gray and metallic.
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 girl was healthy and well developed, and from the middle line of her body between the xiphoid cartilage and the umbilicus, attached by a soft pedicle, was an accessory individual, irregular, of ovoid shape, the smaller end, representing the head, being upward.
The upper portion of a parasite was firmly attached to the lower right side of the sternum of the individual by a bony pedicle, and lower by a fleshy pedicle, and apparently contained intestines.
Through the opening a mass of intestines and a portion of the liver, attached by a pedicle, protruded.
Bastianelli discusses those cases in which portions of the liver, having been constricted from the general body of the organ and remaining attached by a pedicle, give rise to movable tumors of the abdomen.
Terrier speaks of splenectomy for torsion or twisting of the pedicle, and such is mentioned by Sir Astley Cooper, who has found records of only four such cases.
The broad ligaments and Fallopian tubes were ligated on either side, the tumor turned out, the thick, heavy pedicle transfixed and ligated, and the enormous growth cut away.
The pedicle was rather small and was tied in the usual way, and the tumor was removed.
As the furrow deepens the distal end of the toe becomes ovoid, and soon an appearance as of a marble attached to the toe by a fibrous pedicle presents itself.
We correct it by fixing a metal plate to the spine with pedicle lag screws.
The twitching increased, until finally one dull, glazed eye brightened somewhat and curled slowly out upon its slender pedicle, toward the dish.
A polyp is either cut off or its pedicle bound with a ligature, and it is allowed to shrivel.