pedicle

1. Biology. A small stalk or stalklike structure, especially one supporting or connecting an organ or other body part. Also called pedicel.
2. Medicine.
   1. A slender footlike or stemlike part, as at the base of a tumor.
   2. Part of a skin or tissue graft that is left temporarily attached to the original site.

[Latin pediculus, diminutive of pēs, ped-, foot. See pedicel.]

1. A constricted portion or stalk.
2. A slender stalk by which the base of a nonsessile tumor is attached to normal tissue. Also called peduncle.
3. A stalk through which a skin flap receives its blood supply until the skin flap is transferred to its intended site of attachment.

A footlike, stemlike, or narrow basal part or structure, such as a narrow strip by which a graft of tissue remains attached to the donor site.

• p. advancement technique — a surgical technique, commonly used in the repair of skin defects and defects in eyelids, in which a pedicle of tissue, usually skin, is formed and moved forward to fill a defect, without lateral movement. Various forms include the single or sliding flap, bipedicle flap, and V-Y technique. See also flap (1).
• p. flap — see pedicle graft.
• omental p. flap — a segment of omentum can be mobilized as a flap to aid in the reconstruction of the thoracic or body wall.
• vertebral p. — one of the paired parts of the vertebral arch that connect a lamina to the vertebral body.

The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
  Synonym: pedicel

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Pedicle or pedicel may refer to:

• Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
• Pedicle (zoology), a fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve mollusks to a substrate
• Pedicel (botany), the stalk of an individual flower
• Pedicle (cervidae), the attachment point for antlers in cervids
• Pedicel (antenna), the second segment of the antenna in the class Insecta, where the Johnston's organ is found
• Pedicel or petiole (insect), the stem formed by a restricted abdominal segment which connects the thorax with the gaster (the remaining abdominal segments) in the suborder Apocrita
• Pedicel (spider), the narrow segment connecting the cephalothorax with the abdomen
• Congo Pedicle, an area of DR Congo jutting into Zambia
• Zaire Pedicle, used for 'Congo Pedicle' during the time that DR Congo was called Zaire
• Congo Pedicle road, serving Zambian provinces either side of the Congo Pedicle

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