polyp: [16] A polyp is etymologically a ‘manyfooted’ creature. The word originally signified ‘octopus’, but in the 18th century was broadened out into a general term for marine invertebrates with tentacles, such as hydras and sea anemones. It comes via French polype and Latin polypus from Greek polúpous ‘cuttlefish’, a compound formed from pólus ‘much, many’ and poús ‘foot’ (source of English pew and podium and related to English foot).
The metaphorical application of the word to a tumour growing from mucous membrane (an allusion to its tentacle-like outgrowths) originated in Greek. Greek pólus (a distant relative of English full and plural) is of course the starting point of many English poly- words, all with the underlying notion of ‘several’ – among them polyglot [17] (etymologically ‘many tongues’), polygon [16], polysyllable [16], and polytechnic [19].
And its plural, polloí ‘many’, is the origin of English hoi polloi [19], literally ‘the many’. => foot, full, hoi polloi, pedal, plural, plus, polygon
polyp (n.)
c. 1400, "nasal tumor," from Middle French polype and directly from Latin polypus "cuttlefish," also "nasal tumor," from Greek (Doric, Aeolic) polypos "octopus, cuttlefish," from polys "many" (see poly-) + pous "foot," from PIE root *ped- (1) "a foot" (see foot (n.)). Etymological sense revived 1742 as a name for hydras and sea anemones (earlier polypus, early 16c.). The Latin word is the source of French poulpe "octopus."
双语例句
1. It takes ten years or more for a benign polyp to turn malignant.
良**肉转为恶性要经过10年或更长的时间。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Coral is formed by certain types of polyp.
珊瑚是由某些水螅体构成的.
来自辞典例句
3. To investigate nursing of gastric polyp electrocision by awak - sedation gastroscope during operation.
探讨清醒镇静胃镜胃息肉电切术的围手术期的护理措施.
来自互联网
4. Ureteral fibroepithelial polyp is a rather rare benign tumor.
输尿管纤维上皮**肉是种较少见的良性肿瘤.
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5. If your colonoscopy reveals a polyp, your doctor will remove it immediately.
