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
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
When the pedicle is excessively broad and stout, it should be transfixed by strong needles and double threads in various places, and thus tied in several portions.
From A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners by Bell, Joseph
