| Often called the silent killer, colon cancer is believed to begin when polyps or small benign growths evolve into cancer. |
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| Finally solitary polyps or medusae may clone to produce more of their kind. |
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| Screening for and removal of colorectal cancer and precancerous adenomatous polyps can decrease the incidence of colon disease. |
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| Not everyone needs to be tested for precancerous polyps and colon and rectal cancer. |
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| Taking full advantage of the glut, the flower-like polyps of xenia soft corals pulsated as they fed on the zooplankton delivered by the currents. |
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| Fibroids and polyps of the uterus can be easily removed surgically if necessary. |
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| The laser can also provide relief for symptoms caused by benign airway tumors such as hamartomas, papillomas, polyps, and angiomas. |
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| Does he have any history of nasal problems, such as trauma, congestion, or anosmia associated with nasal polyps? |
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| The objective of the study was to evaluate the utility of retroflexion for removal of large sessile colon polyps. |
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| During this period, each polyp is capable of budding new polyps though asexual reproduction in spring. |
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| For instance, coral polyps amount to natural assemblers as they build their reefs. |
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| Some children have nasal polyps, which are cysts or growths of extra tissue in the nose at the end of the tear duct. |
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| In polyps, medusae, and worms, all longitudinal and circumferential muscles attach to the thin body wall over a wide area. |
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| Surgical removal of tonsils, nasal polyps or other tissue impinging on the airway also may relieve sleep apnea. |
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| Examine his nose for any obstruction, such as polyps or septal deviation, and whether unilateral or bilateral. |
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| Neither the triglyphic nor the monoglyphic polyps were significantly different in size from the diglyphic ones. |
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| In older children, nasal polyps and turbinate hypertrophy must be ruled out. |
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| There are medieval scenes of bloodletting, and of doctors cauterising patients' piles, polyps, and even cataracts. |
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| A wire snare is used to remove the polyps under local or general anaesthetic. |
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| The nerve net has been implicated in the behavioral coordination amongst polyps in the colony. |
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| When the limits of the substrate have been reached, a Hydractinia colony will bud reproductive polyps called gonozooids from the stolonal mat. |
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| On opening, the colon revealed numerous wormlike or villiform polyps covering almost the entire segment of the sigmoid colon. |
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| Tubular polyps are pedunculated, whereas villous adenomatous polyps have broad bases and are larger. |
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| Cnidarians of the genus Obelia form colonies of polyps in their asexual generation. |
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| In the coelenterate Obelia, the egg develops into a colonial hydroid consisting of a series of branching Hydra-like organisms called polyps. |
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| It's believed calcium reduces the occurrence of polyps in the colon that can turn cancerous. |
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| Being octocorallians, they have polyps that show an octamerous or eight-fold symmetry. |
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| In Hydractinia, these features involve changes in the regulation of axial patterning along stolons and polyps. |
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| Epidermoid cysts, squamous papillomas, and fibroepithelial polyps do not usually present differential diagnostic difficulties. |
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| The groups Hydrozoa, Scyphozoa and Cubozoa all are generally characterized as having polyps and medusae. |
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| The colonoscope not only allows identification and localization of the disease process, but also allows biopsy or even removal of polyps. |
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| Italian surgeons have perfected a novel way of snaring large colorectal polyps which minimises the risk of postoperative bleeding. |
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| Not all polyps become cancerous, but nearly all colorectal cancers evolve from polyps. |
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| Approximately one third of polyps and one half of colorectal cancers occur proximal to the splenic flexure. |
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| Tumors or polyps that develop proximal to the splenic flexure carry a poorer prognosis than those that arise more distally. |
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| In the subclass Hexacorallia, polymorphism of polyps in colonies is unknown, so for this group, variation in life cycles simply involves fission. |
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| Do polyps of other cnidarian species have a tissue dynamics similar to that of hydra? |
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| Instead, many used a scenario approach to conclude that solitary sessile polyps represent the ancestral cnidarian form. |
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| Colonoscopy revealed diverticulitis and several benign polyps, which were excised. |
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| Growths such as polyps or fibroids can often be removed and endometriosis can often be treated with medications or surgery. |
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| What's more, most tumors start out as polyps, or benign growths, in the colon. |
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| Tubulovillous polyps are pedunculated, with villous projections extending from the free ends. |
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| Although most of the life of Obelia is spent in the sessile polyp form, medusa buds produced within reproductive polyps called gonangia escape into the water column. |
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| High mean corpuscular volume, which is often a sign of either vitamin B12 or folate deficiency, has been found to be predictive for a risk of colorectal polyps in men. |
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| Sections from the ileum showed the polyps to be composed of multiple closely aggregated lymphoid follicles in the lamina propria of the ileal mucosa. |
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| Dave and colleagues performed a systematic review to determine the absolute risk of synchronous proximal neoplasia in the presence of distal hyperplastic polyps. |
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| The rainbow of life in a coral reef is founded on the partnership between polyps and algae. |
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| The fecal occult blood test is not useful in detecting a precancerous stage because large adenomatous polyps rarely cause bleeding and remain undetected. |
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| Colonoscopy is an invasive procedure than examines the entire colon and can be used to obtain biopsy specimens of adenomas and carcinomas and to excise adenomatous polyps. |
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| From the perspective of the gastroenterologist, the presence of glycogenic acanthosis and hamartomatous polyps should suggest the diagnosis of Cowden's syndrome. |
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| The ability to detect precancerous adenomatous polyps, remove them, and thus prevent the development of colorectal cancer is an important rationale for screening. |
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| While a few hydrozoans, such as Hydra, are solitary polyps, most live in colonies made up of anywhere from a few to thousands of individual polyps. |
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| Follow-up colonoscopies three years hence determined the presence or absence of polyps. |
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| Known as polyps or adenomas, benign tumors in the colon have the potential to become cancerous. |
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| Well-studied examples occur in the hydractiniid hydroids, which encrust hard substrata with stolons that serve as tube-like connections between feeding polyps. |
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| Using a nasal speculum, your doctor may look inside your nose for signs of allergic disease such as increased nasal secretions, swelling or polyps. |
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| Apart from killing animals outright, it's a terrific transport system for tiny feral life forms such as barnacles, worms and polyps, which are invading new habitats. |
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| Moray eels, nudibranchs, stingrays, shellfish, sea urchins and sea stars were out and about, while the polyps of black corals and other gorgonians were feeding. |
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| For example, fragmentation in scleractinian corals can reduce fecundity in polyps surrounding the damaged region or even entire coral colonies, by an unknown mechanism. |
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| Scyphozoan polyps and medusae exhibit no cephalization and contain no brain, but in some species, light-sensitive eyespots are located along the bell margin of the medusa. |
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| A few, such as Hydra, are solitary polyps that lack a medusoid stage. |
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| Fertilized eggs develop into crawling planula larvae which settle on hermit crab-occupied shells, and subsequently metamorphose into primary polyps. |
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| Before long, similar green proteins were detected in many bioluminescent coelenterates including various medusae, apparently all luminescent hydroid polyps, and a few others. |
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| A young planula settles down as a sedentary polyp, which can sprout more polyps, sometimes for several years. |
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| A USUALLY doctors try to treat nasal polyps using non-surgical means first. |
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| The benthic fauna on the bank contains species that live on a hard substrate, such as sea anemones and polyps. |
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| Calculous disease and its relationship to fibroepithelial polyps of the renal pelvis and ureter. |
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| Occasional, acquired cutaneous polyps, with the typical gross features of acrochordons, may demonstrate a marked degree of cytologic atypia. |
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| It's a collection of polyps, or siphonophore, and rather a nasty one at that. |
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| Hyperplastic polyps appear to have an even slower rate of growth, he added. |
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| Some health plans had been charging copayments or coinsurance when polyps were removed during the procedure. |
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| Prescription drugs couldn't shrink the swollen tissue and nasal polyps, a benign form of tumor, that clogged his sinus passages. |
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| The diagnosis of sinusitis is guided by a recent European position paper on rhinosinusitis and nasal polyps. |
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| Total and specific IgE in nasal polyps is related to local eosinophilic inflammation. |
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| Polyp colonies form by strobilation, in which multiple polyps share a common stomach cavity. |
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| Endometrial polyps were diagnosed by diagnostic hysteroscopy, and AUB was defined as menorrhagia, metrorrhagia or intermenstrual bleeding. |
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| Some polyps can asexually produce a creeping frustule larval form, which then develops into another polyp. |
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| Jellyfish may also benefit from saltier waters, as saltier waters contain more iodine, which is necessary for polyps to turn into jellyfish. |
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| Sometimes other problems within the nose cause obstruction such as a deviated nasal septum or nasal polyps and these conditions may need surgical treatment. |
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| But from May through August, buds the size of a BB break off the polyps and rapidly grow into sea nettles that can reach the size of a dinner plate. |
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| All patients were treated with 40 mg of omeprazole per day In the otitis media patients, middle ear discharge, granulations, and polyps disappeared in a mean of it weeks. |
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| It wasn't designed to remove polyps or treat ethmoid sinus disease. |
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| This suggests that the medusa form evolved after the polyps. |
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| The differential diagnosis includes chondroma, hamartoma, and polyps, although spindle-cell carcinoma can contain metaplastic or malignant cartilage. |
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| A significant amount of work has been performed to identify cytokines that are either upregulated or downregulated in chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. |
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| Anterior rhinoscopy can usually identify signs that are consistent with inflammation in CRS, such as purulent drainage, polyps, and polypoid changes. |
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| In one of the first activities, individuals played the roles of coral polyps, zooxanthellae, the algae that feed the corals, and the protective calcium carbonate skeleton. |
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