Noun

(en noun)

A branching and bony structure on the head of deer, moose and elk, normally in pairs. They are grown and shed each year. (Compare with horn, which is generally not shed.)

While hiking in the woods, I found an antler from a deer .

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. }}