Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Resembling a polyp or polypus; polypiform or polypomorphic.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Zoöl.) Like a polyp; having the nature of a polyp, but lacking the tentacles or other parts.
- adjective (Med.) Resembling a polypus in appearance; having a character like that of a polypus.
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- adjective Resembling a
polyp . - adjective
Marked by thepresence oflesions suggesting polyps.
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Examples
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Excessive polypoid tissue hypertrophy should be excised.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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Fungations and polypoid protuberances afford safe opportunities for the removal of specimens of tissue.
Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery Chevalier Jackson 1911
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The gum almost buries the teeth, and large polypoid masses form which tend to fungate.
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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Girls are apt to be found affected with polypoid excrescences at the meatus, which when removed will cause the enuresis to disappear.
History of Circumcision from the Earliest Times to the Present Moral and Physical Reasons for its Performance Peter Charles Remondino 1886
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Furnished with these facts, it is not difficult to recognize true beroidal forms in the embryos of sea-urchins and star-fishes, published by Muller in his beautiful plates, and thus to trace the medusoid origin of the echinoderms, as the polypoid origin of the medusae has already been recognized.
Louis Agassiz His Life and Correspondence Agassiz, Louis 1885
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The most prominent symptoms of polypoid growths are hemorrhage, which is almost invariably present, leucorrhea, pain, backache, and a sense of weight and dragging in the pelvis.
The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877
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Muller in his beautiful plates, and thus to trace the medusoid origin of the echinoderms, as the polypoid origin of the medusae has already been recognized.
Louis Agassiz: His Life and Correspondence Louis Agassiz 1840
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Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.
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Invaginations account for 2/3 of small bowel occlusion caused by up to 80% of tumors and the lipoma is the most frequent benign tumor that causes invagination in its submucous polypoid and it is in more or less scissile form.
PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2010
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Comments: On routine examination of the cecum during screening colonoscopy, a 76 year-old man is noted to have a small amount of polypoid tissue extruding from the appendiceal orifice.
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