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POLYPUS
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Irregular inflected form: polypi
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
Synonyms:
polyp; polypus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Hypernyms ("polypus" is a kind of...):
growth ((pathology) an abnormal proliferation of tissue (as in a tumor))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "polypus"):
adenomatous polyp (a polyp that consists of benign neoplastic tissue derived from glandular epithelium)
sessile polyp (a relatively flat polyp)
pedunculated polyp (a polyp with a stalk or peduncle)
