One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

These two body segments are connected with a small waist called the pedicle or the pregenital somite.    From Wordnik.com.  [CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]] Reference

The ureter as a pedicle for construction of a ureteral urethra: The Double Tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Publications of the Urology Division] Reference

This case revolved around pedicle screws and receiver members used in spinal surgeries.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2006-11-01] Reference

It throws out a pedicle or foot stalk in the course of the second or third week, the leaves of which are of similar shape to that of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference

It was necessary to calculate the exact length of the vascular pedicle, for tension on an arterial or venous suture is a dangerous thing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alexis Carrel - Nobel Lecture] Reference

The total length, pedicle and all, is about 3 millimetres.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

It had no pedicle and was fixed, showing unequal consistency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

In favourable cases the pedicle is now brought easily into view.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

Absence of the pedicle greatly adds to the danger in any given case.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

I passed a ligature as firmly round the pedicle and as high up as I could.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference

The pedicle was rather small and was tied in the usual way, and the tumor was removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

They are usually sessile, but sometimes the base is so narrow as almost to form a pedicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

Body campanulate, widest at anterior border, from which it tapers directly to the pedicle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference

A polyp is either cut off or its pedicle bound with a ligature, and it is allowed to shrivel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages] Reference

The pedicle is slender, smooth, and transparent, and branches sparsely at its distal extremity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marine Protozoa from Woods Hole Bulletin of the United States Fish Commission 21:415-468, 1901] Reference

Further to avoid this danger, the pedicle may be transfixed by one or two needles above the clamp.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

Division and inset of the pedicle is generally performed about 3 weeks following the initial procedure.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Terrier speaks of splenectomy for torsion or twisting of the pedicle, and such is mentioned by Sir Astley.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

The pedicle is brought to the surface, and in every case where it is possible is secured outside the wound.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

The width of the pedicle at its origin should be 1 - 1.5 cm to avoid strangulation when the flap is rotated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

It allows for delivery of a rod into the pedicle screws in a straightforward step with no additional incisions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Business Wire Travel News] Reference

Sessile or pedunculated out growth of the bone which a. Its attachment to the bone is by a narrow pedicle. is mottled. b.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

The Paramount® system gives surgeons a minimally invasive option to place the pedicle screws through a percutaneous tube.    From Wordnik.com.  [News] Reference

We will suppose at present that none exist in this typical case, and that the pedicle is found of a satisfactory size and shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Manual of the Operations of Surgery For the Use of Senior Students, House Surgeons, and Junior Practitioners] Reference

His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country] Reference

The Leucopsis 'egg is not even laid upon the Mason-bee's larva; it is hung by its bent pedicle to the fibrous wall of the cocoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mason-Bees] Reference

After extirpation of the mass by clamping and twisting its pedicle, a laparotomy was required under suspicion of a uterine rupture.    From Wordnik.com.  [BioMed Central - Latest articles] Reference

They are best extirpated by means of a ligature, or circular compression, on the pedicle of the polypus, and tightened every second day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dog] Reference