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 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

A tumor having a pedicle, found especially on mucous                      membranes, as in the nose, etc.

From Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada by Ritter, Thomas Jefferson