polyp

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pol·yp /ˈpɒlɪp $ ˈpɑː-/ noun [countable]  1. MIa small lump that grows inside your body because of an illness, but is not likely to harm you 息肉2  HBAa very simple sea animal that has a body like a tube 水螅虫 a coral polyp 珊瑚虫

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polyp• Reproducible kinetic parameters such as these might be useful in planning follow up of patients with adenomatous polyps after polypectomy.• Only two small colonic polyps were found in patients who had an upper gastrointestinal lesion.• The trigger fish feeds on coral, crunching the stony branches and extracting the little polyps.• Chains of polyps dangle from a float filled with gas.• Her husband, Webb, just began participating in it, after doctors detected a precancerous polyp.• Linear discriminant analysis showed that polyp recurrence could be predicted with 71% accuracy when the compartment 4+5 labelling index exceeded 3.5.• Millions of tiny polyps have emerged from their limestone cells to stretch out their minuscule arms and grope for food.• A particularly interesting finding was that of a benign tubulovillous polyp that contained both a mutant K-ras and a p53 allele.Origin polyp (1300-1400) French polype, from Latin polypus “octopus”, from Greek, from poly- ( → POLY-) + pous “foot”

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polyp
pol‧yp /ˈpɒləp, ˈpɒlɪp $ ˈpɑː-/ noun [countable]1. a small lump that grows inside your body because of an illness, but is not likely to harm you
2. a very simple sea animal that has a body like a tube:
    a coral polyp

polypBrE /ˈpɒlɪp/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpɑːlɪp/ 🔊 noun(medical 医学) a small lump that grows inside the body, especially in the nose, that is caused by disease but is usually harmless 息肉；（尤指）鼻息肉a small and very simple sea creature with a body shaped like a tube 水螅（体）；（水螅型）珊瑚虫