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Sessile vs Pedicle - What's the difference?

sessile | pedicle |

In zoology terms the difference between sessile and pedicle

is that sessile is permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster” while pedicle is the attachment point for antlers in cervids.

As an adjective sessile

is permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”.

As a noun pedicle is

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

sessile

English

(wikipedia sessile)

Adjective

(-)
  • (zoology) permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about; “an attached oyster”
  • (botany) attached directly by the base; not having an intervening stalk.
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    • The sporophyte foot is also characteristic: it is very broad and more or less lenticular or disciform, as broad or broader than the calyptra stalk

    Derived terms

    * subsessile

    Synonyms

    * (not free to move) attached, fixed, immobile

    Antonyms

    * (not free to move) mobile

    Anagrams

    * ----

    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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