Pedicle vs Receptacle - What's the difference?
pedicle | receptacle |
(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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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=
, 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
, 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
, 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. }}
A container.
(botany) The part of the flower stalk (peduncle or pedicel) to which the floral parts are attached; also torus.
# In the Asteraceae , the end of the peduncle to which all of the florets of the flower head are attached.
(electricity, US) A contact device installed at an outlet for the connection of an attachment plug and flexible cord to supply portable equipment or appliances.
As nouns the difference between pedicle and receptacle
is that pedicle is a fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate while receptacle is a container.pedicle
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