pedicle
- n a small stalk bearing a single flower of an inflorescence; an ultimate division of a common peduncle
- Surgeons now depend on 1) thin grafts which can be done in one operation; 2) a skin flap from near by; 3) a tubed pedicle (when some thickness is needed) which requires three .
- To get skin back onto Kilpatrick's right foot, he had to use pedicle grafts (PTI, April 8, 1957), with the skin flap left attached to its original site to maintain blood flow .
- With the flesh thus released, he constructs a tube pedicle flap, and as he brings it around to the side of the missing breast, the inside-out navel (concave to convex) takes the .