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polypus

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Meaning

  1. noun A medical phenomenon. A polyp. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller} A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
  2. noun A polyp. .mw-parser-output .defdate{font-size:smaller}
  3. noun A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
  4. noun An aquatic creature. A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish. Any of various simple aquatic invertebrates having mouths surrounded by tentacles, including hydrozoa and anthozoa; including the sessile life stages of organisms whose corresponding free-swimming stage is the medusa.
  5. noun A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish.
  6. noun Any of various simple aquatic invertebrates having mouths surrounded by tentacles, including hydrozoa and anthozoa; including the sessile life stages of organisms whose corresponding free-swimming stage is the medusa.

Similar words

polyp polypathia polypathy polyposis polypathology papulosis polycoria polyaemia papulosisis polyoncosis

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