pedicle

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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

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 treatment given is to fit a "nose pedicle" – flesh taken off the man's chest, rolled into a tube and sewn on to the face – and to wait to see if it takes.

From The Guardian • Aug. 10, 2012

We will suppose at present that none exist in this typical case, and that the pedicle is found of a satisfactory size and shape.

From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph