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POLYPIFORM [1 record]

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Record 1 2017-05-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Visual Disorders
DEF

Polypiform : resembling a polyp in gross features.

CONT

In some cases of chronic otitis media with perforation, the middle ear mucosa may become so thick and hypertrophied that polypoid changes can occur and actual polyps may form.

OBS

Polyp: a morbid excrescence, or protruding growth, from mucous membrane; classically applied to a growth on the mucous membrane of the nose, the term is now applied to such protrusions from any mucous membrane.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Troubles de la vision
DEF

Qui ressemble à un polype.

CONT

À travers une perforation peut s'extérioriser une suppuration, un polype, des lamelles de cholestéatome. À travers une perforation, l'œil accède à la caisse et glane des renseignements supplémentaires sur la muqueuse tympanique qui peut être saine, fibreuse, succulente, ulcérée, polypoïde, frappée de tympanosclérose.

Spanish

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