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polypus

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noun

  1. pathol another word for polyp
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Origin of polypus1

C16: via Latin from Greek: polyp
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In the first century AD, Pliny the Elder wrote of a "polypus" that was "enormous beyond all conception" and "exhaled a most dreadful stench."

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Insert the boat into the bottle stern first, using a bent metal coat hanger or a surgeon’s tool called polypus forceps.

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You can see the coral insects and polypuses clinging to the rocks, and far below, fishes of different species meeting and swimming past each other.

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He died of a polypus in the heart in July, 1749.

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The sequel� of otitis media, such as granulations sprouting out from the drumhead, some of which may be of large size and are known as polypi, may require treatment by the aurist.

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