A small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane.
1 A polypus came up behind it, whilst the others continued their digestion.
2 I never pretended to be anything but a huge, and possibly productive polypus .
3 Behind, a great walnut tree with black naked branches like a monstrous polypus .
4 It first places its tendrils ready for action, as a polypus places its tentacula.
5 Roberts reports a case of pregnancy associated with a large fibrocellular polypus of the uterus.
6 The animalcule that the marine polypus secretes live by millions at the bottom of their cells.
7 They say of the fish called polypus that
8 Gervis reports the removal of a large polypus of the uterus on the fifth day after confinement.
9 In some folks it grows inwardly, as it were a polypus , and of such, woe is me, am I.
10 Holding it firmly, the forceps should then be slowly twisted round till the neck is destroyed and the polypus detached.
11 Davis describes the spontaneous expulsion of a large polypus two days after the delivery of a fine, healthy, male child.
12 When the polypus was removed by a needle from any of the cells, these organs did not appear in the least affected.
13 But it also occurs independently of other affections and, as before mentioned, is a symptom of polypus , or tumor, in the nose.
14 I to play the part of a polypus that sucks the life-blood of its victims in order to renew its own life!
15 If attempts are made to seize the body of the polypus , it will break down under the forceps, bleed, and give much trouble.
16 If you cut a polypus into twenty pieces, without any regard to division, in a short time you will have twenty perfect polypi.
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