pedicle
A fleshy line used to attach and anchor brachiopods and some bivalve molluscs to a substrate.
A species of shell-fish, often found sticking by its pedicle to the bottom of ships, doing no other injury than deadening the way a little: "Barnacles, termed soland geese In th' islands of the Orcades."
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.
A stalk that attaches a tumour to normal tissue
--Figure 3. Fig. 4, Plate 58, represents the neck of the bladder and neighbouring part of the urethra of an ox, in which a polypous growth is seen attached by a long pedicle to the veru montanum and blocking up the neck of the bladder.
Part of a skin or tissue graft temporarily left attached to its original site.
Where it comes from
From Latin pedīculus (“little foot”), diminutive of pēs.
Adapted from the Wiktionary entry pedicle (CC BY-SA 4.0).