pedicle

Meanings

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.
3. A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
4. pedicel (any sense)
5. peduncle (any sense)
6. Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
7. A fetter for the foot.

Etymology

From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.