Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A peduncle or pedicel; a stalk, stem, or other foot-like support or basis of a part.
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Examples
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The cerebral peduncles (pedunculus cerebri; crus cerebri) are two cylindrical masses situated at the base of the brain, and largely hidden by the temporal lobes of the cerebrum, which must be drawn aside or removed in order to expose them.
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Upon every pressure, from whatsoever it proceeds, greater then that which keeps it up, the subtile parts of this liquor are thrust downwards, towards its _articulations_ of the leaves, where, not having room presently to get into the sprig, the little round _pedunculus_, from whence the _Spine_ and those oblique
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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F and G. G.ant neurons among fibers of the superior cerebellar pedunculus.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Satoru Onodera et al. 2009
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Cirriferus pedunculus: a tendril-bearing peduncle; as in Cardiofpermum and Vitis,
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In Philcf. hot an. it is interpreted — pedunculus partialis, a partial peduncle.
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