pedicle

Etymology

From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.

noun

1. (zoology) A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
   A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades." 1867, William Henry Smyth, The Sailor's Word-Book
2. (zoology) The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
   His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features. 1910, John T. McCutcheon, In Africa
3. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
   --Figure 3. Fig. 4, Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder. 1859, Joseph Maclise, Surgical Anatomy
   One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous. 1896, George M. Gould, Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
4. pedicel (any sense)
   One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper. 1914, Alexander Teixeira De Mattos, The Mason-bees
5. peduncle (any sense)
   The chimpanzee Heschl's gyrus homolog also showed evidence of a strongly excavated middle Heschl's sulcus, within the confines of a single gyral pedicle, predominantly in the right hemisphere. January 9, 1998, Patrick J. Gannon et al., “Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog”, in Science, volume 279, number 5348, →DOI, pages 220–222
   The surface of the extracellular space at the base of the cone pedicle in goldfish has been estimated to be between 0.01 to 0.1 µm 2 depending on the fixation procedure used [ C. A. V. Vandenbranden, et al., Vision Res. May 11, 2001, Maarten Kamermans et al., “Hemichannel-Mediated Inhibition in the Outer Retina”, in Science, volume 292, number 5519, →DOI, pages 1178–1180
6. (surgery) Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
7. A fetter for the foot.