different between thrombus vs polypus

English

Etymology

Borrowed from New Latin thrombus, from the Ancient Greek ??????? (thrómbos, “lump, piece, blood clot, milk curd”); compare thrombo-.

Noun

thrombus (plural thrombi)

1. (hematology, pathology) A blood clot formed from platelets and other elements that forms in a blood vessel in a living organism, and causes thrombosis or obstruction of the vessel at its point of formation or travel to other areas of the body.

Synonyms

• blood clot

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• embolus

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t???.bys/

Noun

thrombus m (plural thrombus)

1. thrombus

Further reading

• “thrombus” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology

From Latin polypus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous). Doublet of polyp.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p?s/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p?l?p?s/
• Hyphenation: pol?y?pus

Noun

polypus (plural polypi or polypuses)

1. (hematology, pathology) A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem.
   • 1898, Werner's magazine (volume 20)

     The nasal passages should be carefully examined for symptoms of stegnosis, enlargement of the turbinated bones, polypi, etc.

2. (archaic) An octopus.

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (polúpous) (or from Doric Ancient Greek ??????? (p?lupos) for the variant with long ?).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?po.ly.pus/, [?p?l?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?po.li.pus/, [?p??lipus]

or

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /?po?.ly.pus/, [?po?l?p?s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /?po.li.pus/, [?p??lipus]

Noun

p??lypus m (genitive p??lyp?); second declension

1. octopus
2. cuttlefish
3. nasal tumor

Declension

Second-declension noun.

Or, alternatively, with a long ?:Second-declension noun.

Usage notes

• A variant with long ? is found occasionally in Ovid and Horace, perhaps to make the meter scan more easily; this variant has its origin in the Doric Greek form of the noun.

Descendants

References

• polypus in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• polypus in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• polypus in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• polypus in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette