10 example sentences using polyp.
Polyp used in a sentence
Polyp in a sentence as a noun
A polyp in the colon is discovered and resected.
There's a high chance that such a polyp would have developed into colon cancer within a few years.
Maybe he has one advanced tumor and one polyp that's about 3% more cancerous than expected.
Then all the drilling and various structures built in water are just big nurseries for baby jellyfish and polyp sacks.
They did find a polyp and showed it to me on the monitor, TBH you have to have a trained eye to recognize those, so they biopsied it right then an there.
I think that the parent is referring to a jellyfish that 'lives forever' by reverting back to a polyp, and starting the life cycle over.
Granted their final life stage is a polyp which creates a new young medusa, but there theoretically could be a specimen that is 7 millions years old.
I had a polyp removed during mine, and there was absolutely no physical indication for me that anything had happened.
I had an upper and lower endoscopy several years ago, doctor cut out a sizable but not yet cancerous polyp.
Remember that immortal jellyfish some japanese scientist discovered a while ago that went back to its polyp phase once it got mature?
Polyp definitions
a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane
See also: polypus
one of two forms that coelenterates take (e.g. a hydra or coral): usually sedentary with a hollow cylindrical body usually with a ring of tentacles around the mouth; "in some species of coelenterate, polyps are a phase in the life cycle that alternates with a medusoid phase"