pedicle

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. 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. 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. 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. pedicel (any sense)
    — One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.
  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.
  6. Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
  7. 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;

词形变化

pedicles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
bipedicle pedicled transpedicle
相关词
pedicel

词源

From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.
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