Definition of Pedicles

1. Noun. (plural of pedicle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedicles

1. pedicle [n] - See also: pedicle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedicles

pedicab
pedicabs
pedicel
pedicellaria
pedicellariae
pedicellate
pedicellation
pedicellina
pedicels
pedicle
pedicle flap
pedicle graft
pedicle of arch of vertebra
pedicled
pedicles (current term)
pedicular
pediculate
pediculates
pediculati
pediculation
pediculi
pediculicide
pediculina
pediculophobia
pediculoses
pediculosis
pediculosis capitis
pediculosis corporis
pediculosis palpebrarum

Literary usage of Pedicles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Diseases of the ovaries: Their Diagnosis and Treatment by Spencer Wells (1873)
"I have also treated both ovaries in this manner, and I have, after tying one or both pedicles, brought the ligatures out through the wound. ..."

2. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1833)
"Sometimes the testa is trapezoid or ovoid, or in the form of a heart, truncated posteriorly; the ocular pedicles, inserted at a little distance from the ..."

3. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1882)
"Some of these pedicles were adherent to one another along their entire length, while others were independent, the extremities only being attached W the main ..."

4. The Practitioner by Gale Group, ProQuest Information and Learning Company (1903)
"... for non-adherent tumours with torsion of their pedicles is good. The large cyst is figured in the miniature drawing (Fig. 30). Fig. 3<i. ..."

5. A Manual of the Infusoria: Including a Description of All Known Flagellate by William Saville-Kent (1880)
"... and in the more slender and attenuate proportions of the secondary pedicles, which while short are never so abridged as to impart to the bodies that ..."

6. A Systematic Arrangement of British Plants: With an Easy Introduction to the by William Withering (1801)
"Capsules large, flat, fixed to pedicles at the bottom of the bell. PHAL'LUS Stem supporting a cellular head. Seeds in the cells. (3) Seeds on every part of ..."

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