Associations to the word «Pedicle»
Noun
Adverb
Wiktionary
PEDICLE, noun. (zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
PEDICLE, noun. (zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
PEDICLE, noun. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
PEDICLE, noun. Pedicel (any sense)
PEDICLE, noun. Peduncle (any sense)
PEDICLE, noun. (surgery) Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
Dictionary definition
PEDICLE, noun. A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle.
Wise words
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