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polyp

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Word definitions for polyp in dictionaries

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE adenomatous ▪ Patient 202 - presented aged 41 years with a rectal adenocarcinoma associated with over 100 adenomatous polyps . ▪ Reproducible kinetic parameters such as these might be useful in planning follow up ...

Usage examples of polyp.

It was a gloomy shadowy place at the best, but in those hideous shadows lurked the obscene shapes of monstrous polyps and strange, misformed fish which were like the creations of a nightmare.

All your organs are there, in the right place, healthy, no polyps, no obvious endometriosis, none of the stuff that we look for first.

Polyps, sponges, and cystic entozoa, may also be included among hermaphrodites.

But at last a change came: there was a great rush of muddy water from the land, and all the Favosites died, leaving only a stony skeleton to prove that industrious Polyps had ever existed there.

Earth, the same vaulted ceiling and elaborate pillars, the intimidating air of reverence, though here the polyp walls were a clean snow-white, and instead of an altar there was a fountain bubbling out of an antique marble Venus.

His polyps were whirring madly, making a sly, whispering hiss drift behind him.

Elongated versions of the polyps Rogan possessed heavily fringed a central aperture.

He raised his flattened skull, and between the polyps I saw two bulging black eyes staring at me.

The amphistaff polyps in this grove ranged from one to three meters tall: deep-rooted mounds of leather-fleshed tissue, each with two to five muscular nodules from which sprouted triads of juvenile amphistaffs.

Jacen Solo, it was forced to generate a shadow shape using the infrared-sensitive eyespots of the sessile polyps in the amphistaff grove.

In a part of his mind far from the pain and the blood and the harsh blue-white glare, he can feel the dark satisfaction of the amphistaff polyps behind him as they swiftly, almost instantly digest the fallen warrior.

In the treatment of nasal polyps he says that whenever drug treatment of these is not successful, they should be removed with a snare made of hair.

For instance, in the treatment of polyps he says that they should be incised and cauterized.

Soft polyps should be drawn out with a toothed tenaculum as far as can be without risk of breaking them off.

Arculanus suggests a substitute method by which latent polyps or occult polyps as he calls them may be removed.