pedicle

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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 pedicle forms one of the lateral sides of the vertebral arch.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

Each paired transverse process projects laterally and arises from the junction point between the pedicle and lamina.

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

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 Houssay, Frédéric