polyp , auch: polypus

Anyone can get polyps, but certain people are more likely than others.

Two groups of polyps were used for the development study.

There may be one or many polyps, and they become more common as people age.

Then she looked at the polyp, and seemed to take the whole street in.

They can develop polyps in their 20s and 30s, or even earlier.

Polyps can often be removed at the time of the test.

None of the patients knew exactly what polyps were, even though people seemed to have them quite often.

Also, people who have one polyp tend to form others for the rest of their lives.

I want my doctor to remove any polyps right away.

A polyp was removed and no one thought much of it.

The doctor can also take out any polyps he or she finds.

But doctors cannot tell ahead of time which polyps will turn into cancer.

Polyps that are left behind can develop into cancer over time.

Small blood vessels may be present, particularly in large polyps.

Colon polyps are quite common and most do not cause problems.

The test usually takes 30 to 45 minutes, but it may take longer if polyps are found and removed.

Learn more about colon polyps so you know what to watch out for.

They must also have some water movement so their polyps can move freely.

The drug was being studied in people with polyps, not cancer patients.

She said everything went fine - no complications, just a polyp.

However, I am concerned about the polyp in your throat.

A brown top of some kind lay on the polyp beside her.

Such people face a heightened risk of developing new polyps.

Colon polyps are very common, and most of them do not turn into cancer.

When conditions improve they can develop into new polyps over the course of a few weeks.

C. polypus can grow up to 8 cm (3 in) long.

"Polypus," another sailor said, approaching the rail to get a better view, pointing with a lean brown finger.

Eisenbarth designed his own medical instruments, including a cataract needle and a polypus hook.

His nose, large and aquiline, was disfigured by polypus, which he suffered from for much of his adult life.

It was previously known as Polypus ornatus.

"Oreibates has the mark of the polypus on her wrist, and I believe the other two also have it dimly.

C. polypus is found in the Indo-Pacific area and the Red Sea.

In Milan, Orfi, the youngest son of an ancient noble family down on its luck, rocks out every night at the Polypus club.

C. polypus lives as a commensal with several species of hermit crab including Dardanus gemmatus.

By searching, reflecting, and comparing, I became persuaded that the foundation of my complaint was a polypus at the heart, and Doctor Salomon appeared to coincide with the idea.

Philosophical Observations on the Analogy between the Propagation of Animals and that of Vegetables (with Remarks on the Polypus), London, 1752.

Behold me, then, attacked by Madam de Larnage, and adieu to poor Jean Jacques, or rather farewell to fever, vapors, and polypus; all completely vanished when in her presence.

They did not speak, but they thought; and the thought came to more than one, that some polypus or other gigantic cephalopod might inhabit the interior cavities, which were in communication with the sea.

The polypus - a word close enough to the Mediwevan equivalent that he could understand they were talking about a squid - was basking without much concern off the port side, barely a hundred meters away.

Debera was witty enough to understand the real intension of the monarch, and informed the king that he would start on the expedition after three days as he was convalescent at that time having just recovered from polypus of the nose.

Reasonably this opinion should have confirmed my former resolution of considering myself past cure; this, however, was not the case; on the contrary, I exerted every power of my understanding in search of a remedy for a polypus, resolving to undertake this marvelous cure.

There were legends of a hidden lake unglimpsed by mortal sight, in which dwelt a huge, formless white polypus thing with luminous eyes; and squatters whispered that bat-winged devils flew up out of caverns in inner earth to worship it at midnight.

In a journey which Anet had made to Montpellier, to see the physical garden there, and visit Monsieur Sauvages, the demonstrator, he had been informed that Monsieur Fizes had cured a polypus similar to that I fancied myself afflicted with.

In a final work of which only one volume was issued, Victor Hennequin represents God in the guise of an immense polypus located at the centre of Earth, having antennae and horns turned inwards like tendrils all over his brain, as also over that of his wife Octavia.