How to Use polyp in a Sentence

polyp

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  • The doctor is able to use the scope to both see and cut out the polyps.
    — Women's Health, 22 Mar. 2023
  • LaPook was able to cut out the polyp during the colonoscopy.
    — Analisa Novak, CBS News, 13 Sep. 2022
  • In 2005, the Moorea reefs faced hordes of crown-of-thorn sea stars, which eat coral polyps.
    — National Geographic, 18 June 2018
  • The footage then went on to show images of the actual scan of the polyp.
    — Alexandra Schonfeld, Peoplemag, 13 Sep. 2022
  • A polyp is a growth which may form on the inner wall of the colon or rectum.
    — Beth Wood, sandiegouniontribune.com, 1 May 2017
  • The bladder polyp, which looks like a pale blue tooth, stores water and glows in the dark.
    — Marjie Lambert, miamiherald, 16 June 2017
  • Over the next day and a half, this blob becomes a new polyp, which can then form more medusae.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Sep. 2022
  • But a coral polyp tried to eat sand only once in 10 trials.
    — Ben Guarino, Alaska Dispatch News, 31 Oct. 2017
  • This causes the polyps to eject them, to ensure short-term survival.
    — The Economist, 15 Mar. 2018
  • In return, the microorganisms provide most of the polyp’s food.
    — Erik Stokstad, Science | AAAS, 8 Dec. 2020
  • It was first approved in 2003 and has been used to treat asthma, nasal polyps and chronic hives.
    — Jonel Aleccia, Quartz, 16 Feb. 2024
  • Sometimes an electric current is used with the wire, depending on the size of the polyp.
    — Ginny Graves, Health.com, 31 Aug. 2020
  • Politzer, 64, has one every five years because doctors have found polyps in the past.
    — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 7 Mar. 2018
  • Ninety-five percent of colon cancers arise from that type of polyp that was in your colon.
    — Georgia Slater, PEOPLE.com, 8 Nov. 2019
  • Most cancers there start as polyps, or growths, on an inner wall.
    — The Washington Post, The Denver Post, 28 Feb. 2017
  • More than 48 hours after swallowing the microbeads, the polyps spit them back out.
    — Jenny Howard, National Geographic, 25 June 2019
  • The precise interval depends on the number and size of polyps.
    — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 2 Aug. 2023
  • The main purpose of a colonoscopy is to find and remove these precancerous polyps.
    — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 6 Sep. 2017
  • Most of the time, however, the polyps never progress and remain harmless.
    — Gina Kolata, New York Times, 1 Feb. 2018
  • Some of the most common: fibroids, polyps and benign uterine growths.
    — Beth Anne MacAluso, Redbook, 27 Dec. 2017
  • Sheinelle Jones recently had surgery for a polyp on her vocal cords.
    — Zee Krstic, Good Housekeeping, 25 Feb. 2020
  • Two-a-days had just started; a doctor found a polyp in Johnson’s nasal passage.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The scope’s camera can clearly see polyps, or an out-of-place protrusion of cells, which can then be snipped off.
    — Charlotte Hu, Vox, 4 June 2024
  • Corals are animals, not plants; each organism is made up of lots and lots of polyps.
    — Matt Simon, WIRED, 23 Apr. 2018
  • This meant having another surgery to remove polyps that were found in the lining of my uterus.
    — Kae Zaino, Outside Online, 26 June 2019
  • After losing a bet, Ryan Reynolds gets colonoscopy that reveals polyp.
    — Steve Coogan, USA TODAY, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Colonoscopies are the most powerful way to find and remove a polyp early.
    — Alisa Hrustic, Fox News, 23 June 2017
  • The doctor seemed confident the polyp wasn’t anything to worry about.
    — Joel A. Erickson, The Indianapolis Star, 29 Oct. 2020
  • The reason corals serve as oases on the ocean floor is their relationship with the symbiotic algae, known as zooxanthellae, that live inside the polyps.
    — Dinah Voyles Pulver, USA TODAY, 24 Sep. 2024
  • Staging System Rectal cancer typically originates in polyps (growths) within the inner lining of the rectum.
    — Corey Whelan, Verywell Health, 15 Aug. 2024

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