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

They occupy the anterior four-fifths of the tongue, on which they are implanted by a narrow pedicle.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin