pedicle
/ˈpɛd.ɪ.kəl/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.06 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
- "His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features."
- "--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."
- "One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous."
- "One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper."
- "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."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin