peduncle

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Pedunculated fibroids are fibroids which are attached by a stalk to the uterus; this stalk is known as a peduncle.

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  1. noun Botany The stalk of an inflorescence or a stalk bearing a solitary flower in a one-flowered inflorescence.
  2. noun Zoology A stalklike structure in invertebrate animals, usually serving as an attachment for a larger part or structure.
  3. noun Anatomy A stalklike bundle of nerve fibers connecting different parts of the brain.

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  • Pedunculated fibroids are fibroids which are attached by a stalk to the uterus; this stalk is known as a peduncle. —  Article Source
  • Another effect of twisted peduncle is a blockage or twist in veins that supplies the fibroid with blood and nutrients. —  Article Source
  • When a peduncle is determined to be 2cm or more in width, a process called Uterine Artery Embolization is indicated. —  Article Source
  • A. contortus Racemes two, both sessile, or one sessile and the other pedicelled on a peduncle which is more or less sheathed by a proper spathe divaricate or deflexed Leaf base broad and cordate 11. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
  • The leaf-sheath enclosing the base of the peduncle is rather long, glabrous with a tuft of short hairs at the mouth The leaf-blade is green without any glaucousness about it, 1/2 to 6 inches long, 3/16 to 1/4 inch broad, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, flat, acuminate, slightly coriaceous, many-nerved with a prominent midrib, scaberulous throughout, with a few long scattered deciduous, tubercle-based hairs towards the base, base subcordate, margin cartilaginous, scabrid and finely serrulate Illustration: Fig. —  A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
 

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  1. New Latin pedunculus, diminutive of Latin pēs, ped-, foot; see ped- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. =F. pédoncule, from Late Latin pedunculus, also Latin peduculus, equivalent to pediculus, a little foot, diminutive of pes (ped-) = English foot.
 

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/pəˈdəŋkl/
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