(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.
Taster
Definition:
(n.) One who tastes; especially, one who first tastes food or drink to ascertain its quality.
(n.) That in which, or by which, anything is tasted, as, a dram cup, a cheese taster, or the like.
(n.) One of a peculiar kind of zooids situated on the polyp-stem of certain Siphonophora. They somewhat resemble the feeding zooids, but are destitute of mouths. See Siphonophora.
Example Sentences:
(1) For instance, it is hard to get colleagues to contribute to “survey courses” – taster programmes that briefly cover the main topics of a discipline.
(2) The harsh labour market experience of the young over recent years is a mere taster of what's in store.
(3) I decided to develop a 50-minute debut Fringe show and performed previews in London to test the show out and began promoting it.” By giving herself a taster of the Edinburgh experience before jumping in with both feet, Collins prepared herself for what was ahead.
(4) Among the tasters will be the Chicago-based author of Taste of Tomorrow, Josh Schonwald, and an Austrian food trends researcher, Hanni Rützler of the Future Food Studio.
(5) At one point, dissatisfied with their taste – she is an enthusiastic rather than a merely dutiful taster – she tipped seven plated servings of scallops back in a basin and began seasoning them all over again.
(6) Tasters selected milk earlier than did nontasters, suggesting that they like it more.
(7) Sensitive non-tasters demonstrated a distribution of reaction times that was similar to that observed with tasters.
(8) These results are regarded as a probable confirmation of the Indian origin of the Gipsies, as the percentage of non-tasters in the majority of the different Indian tribes is higher than that of the European populations.
(9) Now it provides a poignant taster of a major new British Museum touring exhibition that opens in Bristol on 21 September.
(10) The diminished intensity perception for sweet and bitter taste was much more prominent in non-tasters than tasters hypothyroids.
(11) Significantly more subjects who reported a mother debilitated by depression were PTC tasters (p less than .05).
(12) But they were tasters of what the no campaign thought the electorate deserved, ie not much.
(13) The impact of a rare “ice tsunami” in 2013 on the Canadian municipality of Ochre Beach was just a taster: a wall of melting iceberg on Dauphin Lake was blown by winds on to the shore, splintering every house in its path.
(14) In all the groups the frequency of 'tasters' exceeded that of 'nontasters.'
(15) Sixty percent of subjects of hyperthyroid and 40% of hypothyroid subjects were tasters.
(16) Between overall quality and the contents of total pigments, total anthocyanins, coloured anthocyanins and the tasters' mean colour scores; b. Flavour and the contents of total pigments and total anthocyanins.
(17) The present study examined differences in gustatory processing for tasters and non-tasters of phenylthiocarbamide (PTC) by assessing intensity judgment reaction times in these two groups.
(18) The SWR and CFW mice are both derived from Swiss mice, and the results were consistent with the possibility that the Taster animals share an allele which is identical by descent.
(19) We’ll give you some symbolic tasters – cutting winter fuel payments to wealthy pensioners, for example – but no hideous-sounding, cute-puppy-strangling, gruesome sacrifices that would really frighten people.
(20) Here's a taster: "Soccer" has weathered a long, dusty path for mainstream acceptance but the class of 2006 garnered idol status for Cahill, Kewell and co.