pedicle

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim 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."”

2. isim 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.”

3. isim 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.”

4. isim pedicel (any sense)

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

5. isim 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.”

6. isim Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
7. isim A fetter for the foot.

   “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;”