polypoid
- noun
- /ˈpɒlɪpɔɪd/
- Specialized
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polipoide
- During the surgery, the doctor removed a large polypoid growth from the patient's colon.
- polypoid tissue
- polypoid mass
Examples
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Physical examination revealed that a fleshy polypoid mass had occupied the entire external auditory canal.
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Gross pathologic examination identified the mass as a 3.5 x 2.5 x 2.5 cm polypoid tumor.
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The polypoid tissue also featured an area of pigmentation (Figure 3).
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Polypoid tissue and septal perforations have been well described.
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These neoplasms have been described as exophytic, polypoid, oval, dome-shaped, firm, and gray.
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Examination of the right external auditory meatus revealed that it was filled with a reddish polypoid mass.
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In the center of the polypoid tissue was a brown, crusty lesion that was macroscopically identified as an Aspergillus mycetoma.
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Microscopic analysis revealed that the polypoid tumor was composed of cells with gland-forming pleomorphic nuclei (Figure 2).
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On anterior rhinoscopy, she was found to have a right-sided, large, intranasal lesion and, as an incidental finding, a right polypoid vocal fold lesion.
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Oncocytic cysts are often solitary, and their architecture is varied; they may present as a polypoid, sessile, or pedunculated lesion or as a submucosal swelling.
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Polypoid comes from polyp and the ending -oid meaning 'like', so a polypoid is 'something like a polyp', a small growth that sticks out from the body's tissue. That is why doctors use polypoid as the name for a growth that has that shape.
