Vocabulary : Pedial to Pedicle

Pedial : Pertaining to the foot, or to any organ called a foot; pedal.
Pediatric : Pertaining to the care and medical treatment of children.
Pediatrics : That branch of medical science which treats of the hygiene and diseases of children.
Pedicel : A stalk which supports one flower or fruit, whether solitary or one of many ultimate divisions of a common peduncle. See Peduncle, and Illust. of Flower. ;; A slender support of any special organ, as that of a capsule in mosses, an air vesicle in algae, or a sporangium in ferns. ;; A slender stem by which certain of the lower animals or their eggs are attached. See Illust. of Aphis lion. ;; The ventral part of each side of the neural arch connecting with the centrum of a vertebra. ;; An outgrowth of the frontal bones, which supports the antlers or horns in deer and allied animals.
Pediceled : Pedicellate.

Pedicellaria : A peculiar forcepslike organ which occurs in large numbers upon starfishes and echini. Those of starfishes have two movable jaws, or blades, and are usually nearly, or quite, sessile; those of echini usually have three jaws and a pedicel. See Illustration in Appendix.
Pedicellariae : of Pedicellaria
Pedicellate : Having a pedicel; supported by a pedicel.
Pedicellina : A genus of Bryozoa, of the order Entoprocta, having a bell-shaped body supported on a slender pedicel. See Illust. under Entoprocta.
Pedicle : Same as Pedicel.

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