pedicle
Example Sentences
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Some time after the pedicle reached its intended destination, he quit medicine, bounced around a series of Buddhist monasteries in India, changed his name to Jivaka and settled down to write his autobiography.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
For trans men, testosterone and mastectomy were common, but genital surgeries remained rare, in part because phalloplasty had only minimally evolved beyond Gillies’s tubed pedicle of the 1940s.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2022
Each paired transverse process projects laterally and arises from the junction point between the pedicle and lamina.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
Each pedicle forms one of the lateral sides of the vertebral arch.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
The author already quoted believes that the Pompilius seizes its captive by the pedicle which unites the abdomen to the cephalothorax, and that it triturates this point between its jaws.
From The Industries of Animals by Frédéric Houssay
