Crossword clues for polyp
polyp
- Coral reef creature
- Coral creator
- Coral colony member
- Hydra, e.g
- Sea creature with tentacles
- Sea anemone, for example
- Reef component
- Coral element
- Tentacled resident of a coral reef
- Surgeon's problem
- Small tumour
- Sea creature with nematocysts
- Sea anemone, say
- Medusa relative
- Medusa alternative
- Coral maker
- Coral creature
- Coral colony component
- Colonoscopy find
- Colonoscopy discovery (great)
- Colonoscopy detection
- Benchley wrote of its sex life
- Benchley sex-life subject
- Nodule
- Hydra, e.g.
- Growth
- Coral producer
- Hydra, for one
- Surgery target
- Target of minor surgery
- A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
- One of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth
- Sea anemone, e.g
- Sea anemone or hydra
- Hydra or sea anemone
- Small sea creature
- Tentacled animal
- Small growth, usually benign
- Pressure put on old college showing little growth
- Party leader pursues old educational institution's growth
- It could be a sea anemone, parrot said softly
- Reef dweller
- Coral, e.g
- Tentacled creature
- Coral component
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Polyp \Pol"yp\, n. [L. polypus, Gr. ?, ?, literally, many-footed; poly`s many + ?, ?, foot: cf. F. polype. See Poly- and Foot, and cf. Polypode, Polypody, Poulp.] (Zo["o]l.)
One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
One of the Anthozoa.
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pl. Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid. [Written also polype.]
Fresh-water polyp, the hydra.
Polyp stem (Zo["o]l.), that portion of the stem of a siphonophore which bears the polypites, or feeding zooids.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "nasal tumor," from Middle French polype and directly from Latin polypus "cuttlefish," also "nasal tumor," from Greek (Doric, Aeolic) polypos "octopus, cuttlefish," from polys "many" (see poly-) + pous "foot" (see foot (n.)). Etymological sense revived 1742 as a name for hydras and sea anemones (earlier polypus, early 16c.). The Latin word is the source of French poulpe "octopus."
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context medicine English) an abnormal growth protruding from a mucous membrane 2 (context biology English) a cylindrical coelenterate, such as the hydra, having a mouth surrounded with tentacles
WordNet
n. a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane [syn: polypus]
one of two forms that coelenterates take e.g. a hydra or coral: usually sedentary and has a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth
Wikipedia
A polyp in zoology is one of two forms found in the phylum Cnidaria, the other being the medusa. Polyps are approximately cylindrical in shape and elongated at the axis of the vase-shaped body. In solitary polyps, the aboral end is attached to the substrate by means of a disc-like holdfast called the pedal disc, while in colonies of polyps it is connected to other polyps, either directly or indirectly. The oral end contains the mouth, and is surrounded by a circlet of tentacles.
Polyp (formerly P. J. Polyp) is the pen name of the cartoonist Paul Fitzgerald, who is based in the UK. Much of his work, particularly his regular 'Big Bad World' feature for New Internationalist, is political.
A polyp is an abnormal growth of tissue projecting from a mucous membrane. If it is attached to the surface by a narrow elongated stalk, it is said to be pedunculated. If no stalk is present, it is said to be sessile. Polyps are commonly found in the colon, stomach, nose, ear, sinus(es), urinary bladder, and uterus. They may also occur elsewhere in the body where mucous membranes exist like the cervix, vocal folds, and small intestine. Some polyps are tumors ( neoplasms) and others are nonneoplastic (for example, hyperplastic or dysplastic). The neoplastic ones are generally benign, although some can be premalignant and/or concurrent with a malignancy.
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.