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. }}