juvenile polyp

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A smoothly rounded mucosal hamartoma of the large intestine, which may be multiple and cause rectal bleeding, especially in the first decade of life.

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On the farm, the feed for chicks is significantly different from the roosters’; ______ not even comparable.

Qatar is just a little spit of land that looks like a polyp on edge of Saudi Arabia.
U.S. Ally Qatar Shelters Jihadi Moneymen|Jamie Dettmer|December 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
A car was indeed dispatched, with no mention that the suspect was possibly a juvenile and that the gun might be a toy.
The Cleveland Cops Who Fired 137 Shots and Cried Victim|Michael Daly|December 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Officers were responding to a report of a missing juvenile girl, and found her in the house of Carey Smith-Viramontes.
The 14 Teens Killed by Cops Since Michael Brown|Nina Strochlic|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Sixty of those 700 are “juvenile lifers,” men who came in as adolescents and are serving a life term.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On|Tina Brown|November 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST

I was also the front for a juvenile delinquent roaming the streets of New York City and using me as a parental alibi.
Where Cellphone Numbers Go to Die|Jon Methven|August 16, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I travelled first-class on a pass with my father, and great was my juvenile pride.
Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland|Joseph Tatlow
Shakespeare was one of her favourite books at this time, and she took delight in juvenile attempts at personifying the characters.
The Childhood of Distinguished Women|Selina A. Bower
She took more pleasure in her pupils literary efforts, and called him in fun the juvenile Poushkin.
The Life & Letters of Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky|Modeste Tchaikovsky
Nothing can be more juvenile or paltry than the works of the native Belgians here exhibited.
Little Travels and Roadside Sketches|William Makepeace Thackeray
Juvenile delinquency itself has been the subject of much research (especially in the United States) during the past fifty years.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents|Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.