Definition of "polypus" []

• A cardiac thrombus usually found post-mortem. (noun)
• An octopus. (noun)

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• ""O Mrs. Booth! could I have been certain that I had occasioned this, however innocently I had occasioned it, I could never have survived it; but the surgeon who opened him after his death assured me that he died of what they called a polypus in his heart, and that nothing which had happened on account of me was in the least the occasion of it."
• "It appeared to us that the production called polypus resembled an animal much less than a carrot or asparagus."
• ""Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils.""