Word of the Day:
pedicle
What It Means
A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
The attachment point for antlers in cervids.
Pedicle in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.
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