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  • noun Plural form of pedicle.

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Examples

  • In other words, if a buck reaches his maxium BMI (Body mass index), prior to his pedicles developing antlers, then all available nutrition then goes into producing the best antlers that his age class allows him to.

    Do Feeders Grow Big Racks? 2009

  • Saw a large buck a guy shot for a doe in Dec. He had 2 bloody pedicles where he had recently shed antlers.

    When exactly do blacktail, or all deer, shed their antlers and when do they grow back? 2009

  • In other words, if a buck reaches his maxium BMI (Body mass index), prior to his pedicles developing antlers, then all available nutrition then goes into producing the best antlers that his age class allows him to.

    Do Feeders Grow Big Racks? 2009

  • Saw a large buck a guy shot for a doe in Dec. He had 2 bloody pedicles where he had recently shed antlers.

    When exactly do blacktail, or all deer, shed their antlers and when do they grow back? 2009

  • Springing up through that polychromatic flood myriads of pedicles — slender and straight as spears, or soaring in spirals, or curving with undulations gracile as the white serpents of Tanit in ancient Carthaginian groves — and all surmounted by

    The Moon Pool 2004

  • They quivered; the slender pedicles cupping, the waned lights swayed; the lights lifted and soared, upright, to their backs.

    The Metal Monster 2004

  • They hook over the pedicles of my second through fourth lumbar vertebrae, holding the whole mess nicely together.

    The Emerald Triangle Archer, Miles 2003

  • With the exception of the stamens, all parts of the inflorescence, inclusive of the long pedicles, are milk-white, and the perfume is as sweet and refreshing as an English spring posy.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The nerves were sutured, the organ was suspended in the large curve of the stomach by suturing the pedicles of the gastrosplenic vessels, and the abdominal wound was closed up.

    Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture 1967

  • In e, Fig. 1, a stellate band of organized lymph, attached by pedicles to three sides of the urethra, divides the canal into three passages.

    Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise

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