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pedicled en · ADJ

Etymology

From pedicle + -ed.

Meanings

  1. Having one or more pedicles.
    • (3) Other surgical techniques include the sigmoid neovagina, made from a chunk of the large intestine (which supposedly won't shrink, a common complication), and sensate pedicled neoclitoroplasty, in which the glans, with nerves and blood vessels intact, is whittled down and reinstalled at the vaginal opening as a substitute clitoris. 2000 September 8, Cecil Adams, “The Straight Dope”, in Chicago Reader:
    • The right PT contained a separate pedicled gyrus in two brains. 1998 January 9, Patrick J. Gannon et al., “Asymmetry of Chimpanzee Planum Temporale: Humanlike Pattern of Wernicke's Brain Language Area Homolog”, in Science, volume 279, number 5348, →DOI, pages 220–222: