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These innovations all involve evolutionary changes in the regulation of polyp and colony-wide patterning systems.
During this period, each polyp is capable of budding new polyps though asexual reproduction in spring.
Most species, however, do not have polyp leaves, and look more like clubs, umbrellas, or pinwheels.
The polyp lived on top of a tabula in a depression in the top of the coral called the calyx.
It became apparent that I have a sizeable polyp that has gained a foothold across the top of my nose, blocking both of my nasal passages.
If so, consider a posterior polyp that flops in and out of the glottic opening as the patient changes position.
The planula larva settles on a hermit crab shell and metamorphoses into a primary polyp.
The base of the polyp becomes fixed to the substrate and stolons emanate from the aboral pole of the primary polyp.
Her medical history was unremarkable except for the extraction of a polyp from the uterine cervix.
If a polyp or abnormal tissue is found, the doctor may choose to remove it with a snare or cautery, or may take a biopsy.
While the Cubozoa always have polyp and medusa stages, either one can be reduced in the Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa.
If a polyp or abnormality is found, your doctor may choose to remove it with a snare or using cautery.
Cnidarians show an alternation of generations in which two body forms, the polyp and the medusa, alternate.
This procedure has a very positive impact on colors, polyp extension, and vitality of the corals.
Coastal construction gives them more places for their polyp stages to colonize.
Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
The Gogo reef was a different kind of reef, no symbiosis between polyp and algae, more a community of sponges and sea mosses that formed hard skeletons.
If I were to look at photographs of the deep structure of this piece, I'd see down into the level of the skeleton of each coral polyp, the corallite.
Spicules, or needlelike structures, of lime embedded in the polyp body provide a firm but flexible support.
Hydroids have a polyp or medusa form or they alternate generations of each phase.
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A polyp is either cut off or its pedicle bound with a ligature, and it is allowed to shrivel.
In the substance of this polyp lives a crustacean, the nature of which Mons.
The pinnules never branch again, since in the uniserial mode of budding a polyp never forms a second polyp-bud.
In both cases the hydranth is extremely reduced and has no tentacles, and the polyp forms a colony by budding from the base.
Half of the patients were not followed at all for changes in polyp morphology.
The patient elected to undergo hybrid sinus surgery with frontal balloon dilation and powered endoscopic polyp resection.
This remarkable polyp was brought from the Seychelles Islands by Mons.
On the 25th of November, 1740, he cut a polyp into sections.
On a polyp a bud is formed by a hollow outgrowth of the body-wall.
Possibly the polyp stinging organs may have the same structure.
Most urologists will only infrequently encounter patients with a fibroepithelial polyp.
Both types are indistinguishable macroscopically from regular chronic rhinosinusitis polyps, indicating that eosinophilia is not required for polyp formation.
This new individual is at first an active free-swimming larva called a planula, which does not resemble either a medusa or polyp.
Each notch on each thread-like branch was the home of a tiny animal, not unlike a sea anemone and a coral polyp.
The corallite is composed of carbonate of lime secreted by the polyp, and, broadly speaking, may be called a skeleton.
After a while it settles down, becomes fixed and develops into a polyp.
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