Esempi dal corpus di testo per Polyp
1. When researchers slid hydras –– a tiny polyp that under a microscope looks like a slender jellyfish –– into water tainted with minute amounts of pharmaceuticals, their mouths, feet and tentacles stopped growing.
2. One disadvantage of these two so–called virtual scans is that if a blockage is found in the coronary arteries or a polyp or tumor in the colon, angioplasty is needed to open clogged coronary arteries or a catheter is needed to remove an intestinal polyp (if there is a tumor, major surgery is required). The ministry said that the "virtual CT" should be performed not at the initiative of the patient who wants to "know if he is all right," but after referral by a qualified physician who knows the benefits and shortcomings, including complications, of the procedure.