(n.) One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.
(n.) One of the Anthozoa.
(n.) Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.
Example Sentences:
(1) The frequency of gastric malignancies in the families of the women with gastric polyps was higher than in the controls and in men, 6.2, 3.1 and 2.4 percent, respectively (p less than 0.05, and p less than 0.025).
(2) In 20 patients (18.2%), visualization revealed uterine abnormalities, mainly newly added endometrial lesions, i.e., hyperplasia, polyps, endometritis, and synechiae.
(3) In the latter groups, specimens were taken from both polyp tissue and adjacent nasal mucosa.
(4) Age, histological type, number or location of the index diminutive polyps, were not associated with proximal lesions.
(5) In this paper, 5 patients with benign tumor (3 tubular adenoma, 1 leiomyoma and 1 fibroma) and 35 pseudotumor (26 cholesterol polyps and 9 inflammatory polyps) of the gallbladder are presented.
(6) The indication to lipomas removal is based on clinical remarks and differential diagnosis with adenomatous polyps.
(7) Genetic relations of skin tags, colon polyps, and colon cancer are a matter of ongoing research.
(8) Of 14 reported cases of Peutz-Jeghers syndrome associated with intestinal carcinoma, in only two was the tumor shown to originate in the polyp.
(9) Examples include the specific pattern of hypodontia seen before the development of iris dysplasia in Rieger syndrome, and the presence of supernumerary teeth and facial osteomas preceding malignant transformation of intestinal polyps in Gardner syndrome.
(10) All patients with distal polyps detected during flexible sigmoidoscopy underwent colonoscopy.
(11) Findings included squamous epithelium with acute and chronic inflammation, foreign body granuloma and aural polyps.
(12) Nine of these 10 patients had juvenile polyposis defined by the presence of at least three juvenile polyps; and eight of the nine had a family history of juvenile polyps.
(13) Eradication of the pedunculated and narrow-based polyps in stomach was almost totally successful by injection into the base.
(14) Included in the study were 193 small polyps, 0.5 cm in diameter, diagnosed on rectoromanoscopy and removed by mechanical way from 182 patients at the Proctologic Unit of the Department of Gastroenterology.
(15) Despite the fact that this approach has several caveats, consistent results obtained in short-term studies would more readily justify the undertaking of a large-scale, long-term controlled study using colon cancer or adenomatous polyp recurrence as an endpoint.
(16) After the polyp was removed, the cells decreased appreciably in number.
(17) Neoplasia was present in 22% of DPs located less than 60 cm from the anus, 73% of proximally located small polyps, and 32% of all DPs.
(18) Non-neoplastic polyps included 32 inflammatory polyps, 32 metaplastic polyps, 27 juvenile polyps and 17 Peutz-Jeghers type polyps.
(19) Polyps were detected ultrasonographically, but one third of them were overlooked by either cholecystography or CT. Nomenclature, pathological classification and management of the lesions are discussed.
(20) Every second polyp in the same region proved to be adenoma.
Polypi
Definition:
(n. pl.) The Anthozoa.
(pl. ) of Polypus
Example Sentences:
(1) The tumours of the skin, of the connective tissue and of the bone are always benign, whereas the intestinal polypi show a considerable tendency toward malignant degeneration.
(2) Body and tissue weights, and cerebroside levels were determined in addition ot PolyPI concentrations.
(3) With the increase of size of the polypi the proportion of the adenomas clearly increased in comparison to the other kinds of polypi.
(4) Unsatisfactory healing or recurrence of polypi was found in 18%.
(5) Solitary or multiple polypi of the colon not covered by points 1 to 3 above, are primarily for reasons of diagnosis an indication for endoscopic polypectomy.
(6) In order to assess the effects of undernutrition during the pre-weaning period on polyphosphoinositide (PolyPI) pools in rat cerebral cortex, brain stem, and cerebellum, dams were fed 5% (L-) or 22% (L+) protein diets from birth to weaning and the pups were used at this age for analyses.
(7) Single cases of genuine colon rectum polypi, histologically adenomatous, adeno-villous and villous tumours have been treated with cryosurgery.
(8) The authors discuss the incidence of sinusitis, presence of polypi and nasal anomalies in this population.
(9) This procedure is indicated whenever there are reasonable grounds for suspecting the presence of multiple polypi.
(10) Three cases of gastric carcinoid polypi associated to atrophic gastritis and high levels of seric gastrin, are presented.
(11) Recent investigations have shown that conservative treatment of chronic sinusitis, especially with polypi in the nasal cavity and in the paranasal sinuses, is not as successful as in acute inflammation.
(12) A case of benign polypi at the site of uretero-rectal anastomosis is herein reported.
(13) During 104 weeks of experience 8 animals developed in the anastomosed mucosa section adenomatous cystic glandular proliferations, 5 animals anastomotic polypi, 16 animals dysplastic gland areas and 10 animals showed anastomotic carcinomas.
(14) The formation of 3H-labeled polyPI in cortical slices was impaired by in vitro anoxia and fully restored by reoxygenation.
(15) After the surgical removal of the polypi from the nose and paranasal sinuses, not only an improvement in nasal breathing and in the aeration of the sinuses was regularly achieved, but obstructive disorders of ventilation also disappeared.
(16) We present two patients with benign endobronchial tumours: polypi and a chondroma.
(17) Primary application of low temperatures in polyposis recti and in primarily malignant degenerated polypi have to be avoided.
(18) A variety of nasal conditions may present as simple polypi.
(19) Incidental findings were that nasal polypi are much commoner in men and that the incidence of atopy was the same as that in the general population.
(20) The routine endometrial screening of 739 patients (1143 specimens) using the Milan-Markley technic detected 4 cases of endometrial carcinoma, 1 case of carcinoma of the tube, 22 cases of endometrial hyperplasia, and 9 of endometrial polypi.