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n. A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.

n. An octopus.

n. Same as polyp.

n. A tumor, usually with a narrow base, somewhat resembling a pear, -- found in the nose, uterus, etc., and produced by hypertrophy of some portion of the mucous membrane.

n. In zoöl : A-poulp or cuttle.

n. A polyp, in any sense

n. [capitalized] A genus of cuttles. A genus of polyps.

n. In pathology, any kind of tumor growing from a mucous membrane, of rounded form, and more or less distinctly pedunculated. The term is most frequently applied to benign growths

n. a small vascular growth on the surface of a mucous membrane

""O Mrs. Booth! could I have been certain that I had occasioned this, however innocently I had occasioned it, I could never have survived it; but the surgeon who opened him after his death assured me that he died of what they called a polypus in his heart, and that nothing which had happened on account of me was in the least the occasion of it."

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