MetaGlossary.com: Polyp

Keywords: Mucous, Colon, Benign, Protrudes, Colorectal

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A small growth of excess tissue in the nasal passage.

http://www.levaquin.com/sinus/sinus_glossary.htm

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Outgrowth of usually benign tissue. A uterine polyp is tissue from the inside of the uterus.

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An abnormal growth of cells that projects into a hollow organ (such as the colon).

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A growth of tissue. These growths can occur in the colon or rectum and may later become cancerous.

http://www.cdc.gov/colorectalcancer/for_publichealth/sfl/print_silence.htm

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Keywords: Cnidarian, Tentacles, Sessile, Sedentary, Coral

Related Terms: Anemone, Ascus, Cnidaria, Conidium, Ctenophora, Elater, Endoskeleton, Exoskeleton, Filamentous, Foot, Gemmule, Hair, Holothurian, Hydra , Jellyfish, Lophophore, Medusa, Medusoid, Nematocyst , Peristome, Planula, Porifera, Pycnidium, Sea Anemone, Sponge, Sporophore, Test, Velum, Zooid, Zygospore, Hydrostatic Skeleton, Crinoid, Rhizoids, Columella, Echinoderms, Mesoglea, Bryozoan, Ctenophore, Zoophyte, Coelenterate, Coral Polyp, Nematocysts, Tentacles , Sporangiospore, Oospore, Cnidarian, Radiolarian, Coelenterata, Echinoderm

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One of the feeding or nutritive zooids of a hydroid or coral.

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One of the Anthozoa.

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Same as Anthozoa. See Anthozoa, Madreporaria, Hydroid.

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The larval stage of Cnidarians

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Keywords: Swelling, Sinonasal, Mucinous, Mucosa, Noncancerous

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an inflammatory swelling of the sinonasal mucosa, and a mucus retention cyst is a mucinous gland whose duct has become obstructed, causing the accumulation of mucus in the gland

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a swelling of

http://www.allergydir.com/Nasal/nasalpolyps/

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A noncancerous water-filled swelling

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