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Fleshy vs Pedicle - What's the difference?

fleshy | pedicle |

As an adjective fleshy

is of, related to, or resembling flesh.

As a noun pedicle is

a fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.

fleshy

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Of, related to, or resembling flesh.
  • * 1850 , , David Copperfield , ch. 7:
    • Mr. Creakle . . . showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT? . . . Did it bite? At every question he gave me a fleshy cut with it that made me writhe.
  • * 1901 , , The First Men in the Moon , ch. 8:
    • [O]ver reefs and banks of shining rock, a bristling beard of spiky and fleshy vegetation was straining into view.
  • (of a person) Having considerable flesh.
  • * 1894 , , The Prisoner of Zenda , ch. 3:
    • The King's face was slightly more fleshy than mine, the oval of its contour the least trifle more pronounced.
  • * 1908 , , "The Heathen":
    • He was a large fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly-mountain of fat.
  • * 2009 , Lisa Abend, " Google Earth Takes On the Prado's Masterworks," Time , 15 Jan.:
    • It's hard to imagine why Flemish Renaissance artist Peter Paul Rubens would paint a blemish on the backside of one of the fleshy lovelies meant to represent beauty, charm and good cheer, but there's no denying that single red brushstroke in the midst of his central figure's creamy skin.

    Usage notes

    * is not necessarily negative in connotation (as fat, for example) and may be used to describe men or women.

    Synonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) corpulent, full-figured, porky, pudgy, well-covered

    Antonyms

    * (having considerable flesh) bony, slender, slim

    pedicle

    English

    (wikipedia pedicle)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1867, author=William Henry Smyth, title=The Sailor's Word-Book, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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." }}
  • (zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1910, author=John T. McCutcheon, title=In Africa, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features. }}
  • A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
  • * {{quote-book, year=1859, author=Joseph Maclise, title=Surgical Anatomy, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=--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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1896, author=George M. Gould, title=Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1914, author=Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, title=The Mason-bees, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle , which is as long as the egg proper. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 1998, date=January 9, Patrick J. Gannon et al., Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog, Science citation
    • , passage=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. }}
  • * {{quote-journal, 2001, date=May 11, Maarten Kamermans et al., Hemichannel-Mediated Inhibition in the Outer Retina, Science citation
    • , passage=The surface of the extracellular space at the base of the cone pedicle in goldfish has been estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 µm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used [ C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al''., ''Vision Res. }}

    See also

    * pedicel

    Anagrams

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