Usually means: Abnormal tissue growth, often benign.
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  1. polypus: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. polypus: Collins English Dictionary
  3. polypus: Vocabulary.com
  4. Polypus, polypus: Wordnik
  5. polypus: Wiktionary
  6. polypus: Dictionary.com
  7. Polypus: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Polypus: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. polypus: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. polypus: FreeDictionary.org
  11. polypus: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. polypus: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. polypus: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. polypus: Rhymezone

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  1. polypus: Encyclopedia

Medicine (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. polypus: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
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  3. Probert Encyclopaedia of Medicine (No longer online)
  4. polypus: Medical dictionary
  5. Rudy's List of Archaic Medical Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (polypus)

noun:  A medical phenomenon.
noun:  (medicine) A polyp.
noun:  (hematology, pathology) A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
noun:  An aquatic creature.
noun:  (obsolete) A tentacled cephalopod, such as an octopus, squid, or cuttlefish.
noun:  (now rare) 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.

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