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Polyp Small Growth Typically Benign Stalk Protruding Mucous

Front polyp
Back (1) A small growth, typically benign and with a stalk, protruding from a mucous membrane.  (2) The sessile variant of the cnidarian body plan. The alternate form is the medusa.

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