Take a genus $g$ surface $S$ standardly embedded in $\mathbb{R}^3$, by which I mean it is unknotted. Surface $S$ bounds a volume $V$ that deformation retracts on a standardly embedded planar graph $G$ with $\beta_1 = g$, and that only has degree $3$ vertices.
Among the loops on $S$ that are null homotopic in $V$, there is a subset that are boundaries of embedded disks in $V$ that intersect $G$ exactly once for some choice of $G$ as above.
Do these loops (or perhaps close variants) have a name? Do they have an alternate definition?