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n. Biology A small stalk or stalklike structure, especially one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part. Also called pedicel.

n. Medicine A slender footlike or stemlike part, as at the base of a tumor.

n. Medicine Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.

n. A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.

n. The attachment point for antlers in cervids.

n. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue

n. Same as pedicel.

n. A foot-iron. Compare manacle (originally manicle).

n. A pedicel or peduncle.

n. Specifically — The bony process supporting the antler of the Cervidæ, or deer family.

n. The foot of the neural arch of a vertebra, usually a contracted part of such an arch (in comparison with its lamina), whereby the arch joins the body or centrum of the vertebra. The pedicles of any two contiguous vertebræ circumscribe the intervertebral foramina for the exit of spinal nerves. Synonyms See peduncle.

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n. a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle

"The screws used to drill into bone, known as pedicle screws, sell for $1,000 to $2,000 apiece but cost less than $100 to make."

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