papillary

American  

[pap-uh-ler-ee, puh-pil-uh-ree] / ˈpæp əˌlɛr i, pəˈpɪl ə ri /

adjective

1. of, relating to, or of the nature of a papilla or papillae.

2. having or covered with papillae.

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Other Word Forms

• interpapillary adjective

Etymology

Origin of papillary

1660–70; < Latin papill ( a ) nipple + -ary

Example Sentences

Tests revealed that Clough had anaplastic thyroid cancer, a far more aggressive form than papillary.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024

The early indication was that she had papillary thyroid cancer.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2024

Diagnosed in 2013 with serous papillary uterine cancer, a rare and aggressive variety, I went through the full “cut poison burn” treatment of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation.

From Washington Post • May 13, 2022

Because of this connection, each papillary muscle receives the impulse at approximately the same time, so they begin to contract simultaneously just prior to the remainder of the myocardial contractile cells of the ventricles.

From Textbooks • Jun. 19, 2013

It may begin as a hard nodule, or as a papillary growth which breaks down on the surface, leaving a deep ulcer with a characteristically indurated base—the crateriform ulcer.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander