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from The Century Dictionary.

  • Resembling a polypus.

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  • On opening the joint, there may escape fluid and loose bodies similar to those described under hydrops, and if the finger is introduced into the cavity, the upper pouch is felt to be occupied by fringes or polypoidal processes derived from the synovial membrane.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

  • In this human proof-of-concept trial, Lpath plans to dose 32 subjects -- 16 at a lower dose and 16 at a higher dose -- that have PED secondary to wet age-related macular degeneration (wet AMD) or polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV).

    unknown title 2011

  • The researchers speculate that Asian men may be more susceptible to polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy (PCV), abnormal development of blood vessels in the deeper layers of the eye.

    EurekAlert! - Breaking News 2010

  • Other components examine a lower dose of verteporfin and use in polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy.

    MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2009

  • (fosbretabulin against vasculopathy of the retina/choroid) is a 20-patient, randomized, controlled, double-masked single-dose study of intravenous-route ZYBRESTAT in patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy or PCV, a form of choroidal neovascularization that can serve as a model disease for macular degeneration.

    News 2010

  • (fosbretabulin against vasculopathy of the retina/choroid) is a 20-patient, randomized, controlled, double-masked single-dose study of intravenous-route ZYBRESTAT in patients with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy or PCV, a form of choroidal neovascularization that can serve as a model disease for macular degeneration.

    News 2010

  • a condition in which there is a fringy, papillary, or polypoidal growth from the synovial membrane.

    Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893

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