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Pedicle

Definition: Pedicle

Pedicle

Noun

1. A small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

 

Specialty Definitions: Pedicle

DomainDefinitions

Health

Embryonic link between the optic vesicle or optic cup and the forebrain or diencephalon, which becomes the optic nerve. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonym: Pedicle

Synonym: pedicel (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Pedicle

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Pendency

Noun: pendency, dependency; suspension, hanging; Verb: pedicel, pedicle, peduncle; tail, train, flap, skirt, pigtail, pony tail, pendulum; hangnail

Support

Post, pillar, shaft, thill, column, pilaster; pediment, pedicle; pedestal; plinth, shank, leg, socle, zocle; buttress, jamb, mullion, abutment; baluster, banister, stanchion; balustrade; headstone; upright; door post, jamb, door jamb.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Pedicle

Specialty definitions using "pedicle": island flap, island-flapoptic pedicle. (references)
Etymologies containing "pedicle": Pediculati, Pedicule. (references)

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Commercial Usage: Pedicle

DomainTitle

Books

  • Pedicle Flaps of the Upper Limb: Vascular Anatomy, Surgical Technique and Current Indications (reference)

  • Spine: Pedicle Fixation of the Lumbar Spine (State of the Art Reviews, Vol 1, No 1) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: Pedicle

Expression using "pedicle": optic pedicle. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Pedicle

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

pedicle screw

18

pedicle

13

dorsi flap latissimus pedicle

2
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Modern Translations: Pedicle

Language Translations for "pedicle"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

kërcell (cane, footstalk, haulm, pedicel, stalk, stem, Stipe). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏زنبد, ‏عنيق. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

стълбче (baluster, banister, peduncle, plume, stalk, stylus), стъбълце (pedicel, peduncle). (various references)

   

Danish

  

stilk-torsion (torsion of a pedicle, twisting of a pedicle), stilket lap (flap, pedicle flap, tubed flap), stilket hudlap ad modum Converse (Converse tubed pedicle flap), nyrestilk (renal hilum, renal pedicle), nyrehilus (renal hilum, renal pedicle), mesodermalstilk (mesodermal stalk, somitic pedicle), lapplastik (pedicle flap), konus til oejenstilken (attachment of optic vesicle pedicle), collum arcus vertebrarum (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), Blum's nyrestilk-tang (Blum renal pedicle clamp), amnionstilk (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

steeldraaiing (torsion of a pedicle, twisting of a pedicle), radix collum arcus (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), radix arcus vertebrae (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), niersteelklem van Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), nierhilus (renal hilum, renal pedicle), hilus renis (renal hilum, renal pedicle), hilus renalis (renal hilum, renal pedicle), amnionnavelstreng (abdominal pedicle, mesodermal cord, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

French

  

plastie par lambeaux pédiculés (pedicle graft), pince rénale de Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), pédicule vertébral (pedicle of vertebral arch), pédicule optique (optic pedicle, pediculus cupulae opticae, pediculus opticus), pédicule amniotique (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), torsion d'un pedicule (torsion of a pedicle, twisting of a pedicle), lambeau pédiculé de Converse (Converse tubed pedicle flap), cordon amniotique (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

German

  

Stiellappen (pedicle flap, tubed flap), Stielkonus (attachment of optic vesicle pedicle), Stieldrehung (torsion of a pedicle, twisting of a pedicle), Somitenstiele (mesodermal stalk, somitic pedicle), Nierenstiel (renal hilum, renal pedicle), Nahlappenplastik (pedicle flap), gestielte Fernplastik (pedicle graft), Converse Rundstiellappen (Converse tubed pedicle flap), Collum arcus vertebrarum (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), Blum Nierenstielklemme (Blum renal pedicle clamp), Bauchstiel (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), Augenblasenstiel (optic pedicle, optic stalk, pediculus cupulae opticae), Amnionnabelstrang (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κοιλιακός μίσχος της αλλαντοϊδος (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), σπονδυλικός μίσχος (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), λαβίδα νεφρικού μίσχου τύπου Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), δερματικός κρυμνός Converse (Converse tubed pedicle flap). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kocsány (footstalk, pedicel, shank, stalk, stem). (various references)

   

Italian

  

plastica a lembi contigui (pedicle flap), peduncolo renale (renal hilum, renal pedicle), peduncolo dell'arco vertebrale (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), peduncolo del somite (mesodermal stalk, somitic pedicle). (various references)

   

Manx

  

frauaig (fibre). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

ediclepay

   

Portuguese

  

pediculado (pediculate), pedicelo (pedicel, peek). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

стебель (footstalk, scape, shaft, shank, stalk, stem), цветоножка (pedicel, peduncle), ножка (knuckle, leg, pedicel, peduncle, stalk, stem, tootsy, tootsy-wootsy). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

peteljka (pedicel, peduncle, petiole). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

pinza renal de Blum (Blum renal pedicle clamp), pedículo vertebral (collum arcus vertebrarum, pedicle of vertebral arch), pedículo mesoabdominal (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), hilio renal (renal hilum, renal pedicle), cordón amniótico (abdominal pedicle, pedicle of the allantois), colgajo pediculado de Converse (Converse tubed pedicle flap). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

blomstjälk (floral stalk, flower stalk, peduncule, stalk, stem, stem-stalk), blomskaft (pedicel). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

sap biçiminde kanserli doku, çiçek sapı (pedicel, peduncle). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стебельце (pedicel, peduncle), квітоніжка (pedicel, peduncle). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Pedicle

Derivations

Words beginning with "pedicle": pedicled, pedicles. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Pedicle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Pasikale, pedicled, pedile, pedisel, Pedrillo, pedule, Pericle, pericula, periculo, Pheidole. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Pedicle"

Words rhyming with "pedicle" (pronounced 'Ped"i*cle'): Adminicle, Ancle, Appendicle, Arbuscle, Auricle, Bernacle, Bernicle, bicycle, Binnacle, Binocle, Bittacle, Calicle, Canticle, Carbuncle, Cardiacle, Caulicle, Charbocle, Cicatricle, Clavicle, Conceptacle, Conventicle, Coracle, Cornicle, Covercle, Cubicle, Curricle, Cuticle, Demicircle, Denticle, Diverticle, Encircle, Epicycle, Fernticle, follicle, funicle, furuncle, granduncle, hemicycle, Hibernacle, icicle, Immanacle, Incircle, Incle, Interclavicle, Isicle, Mascle, monocle, Monticle, Muscle, Nucle. (additional references)

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Anagrams: Pedicle

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: pedicel.

Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p"

-1 letter: ceiled, cleped, decile, pieced.

-2 letters: clepe, deice, edile, elide, piece, piled, plied.

-3 letters: cede, cedi, ceil, cepe, clip, deep, deil, dele, deli, dice, diel, eide, epic, iced, idle, lice, lied, lipe, peed, peel, pele, pice, pied, pile, pled, plie.

-4 letters: cee, cel, cep, dee, del, die, dip, eel, eld, ice, led, lee, lei, lid.

 Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-l-p"
 

+1 letter: cheliped, eclipsed, pedicels, pedicled, pedicles, penciled.

 

+2 letters: calipered, chelipeds, pencilled, presliced, respliced.

 

+3 letters: callipered, decrepitly, despicable, epidemical, explicated, fieldpiece, fireplaced, helicopted, pediculate, prechilled, predicable, premedical, recompiled, replicated, velocipede.

 

+4 letters: deceptional, deceptively, depreciable, diencephala, fieldpieces, pedicellate, pediculates, pediculoses, pitchblende, placekicked, polemicized, predicables, predictable, psychedelia, psychedelic, reduplicate, specialised, specialized, supercoiled, velocipedes.

 

+5 letters: codeveloping, complexified, complexioned, complimented, decipherable, depoliticize, diencephalic, diencephalon, displaceable, displacement, encyclopedia, encyclopedic, epidemically, glycopeptide, helicoptered, kaleidoscope, peccadilloes, pickerelweed, pitchblendes, placidnesses, plerocercoid, predictively, predilection, psychedelias, psychedelics, reduplicated, reduplicates, reproducible, stepchildren.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Pedicle


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

50 65 64 69 63 6C 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010000 01100101 01100100 01101001 01100011 01101100 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

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ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0050 0065 0064 0069 0063 006C 0065

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

50717075697871

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions
6. Expressions: Internet
7. Translations: Modern
8. Derivations
9. Rhymes
10. Anagrams
11. Orthography
12. Bibliography


  

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