pedicle

noun7

1. •
   A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
2. •
   The attachment point for antlers in cervids.

   • His long, rakish horns are mounted on a pedicle that extends above his head, thus accentuating the droll length of his features. — 1910
3. •
   A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue

   • One of these women, a secundipara, had gone two weeks over time, and had a large ovarian cyst, the pedicle of which had become twisted, the fluid in the cyst being sanguineous. — 1896
4. •
   pedicel (any sense)

   • One of the ends is lengthened out into a neck or pedicle, which is as long as the egg proper. — 1914
5. •
   peduncle (any sense)

   • The chimpanzee Heschl's gyrus homolog also showed evidence of a strongly excavated middle Heschl's sulcus, within the confines of a single gyral pedicle, predominantly in the right hemisphere. — 1998
6. •
   Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
7. •
   A fetter for the foot.

   • two emaciated and thread-bare prisoners are bound with manacles and pedicles to the middle of a wall about four stories high in an immense featureless white room — 1996