A benign fibrous tumor or polyp, typically growing inside the body on mucous membranes.
From fibro- + polypus (Greek polypous, many-footed). The term combines the description of fibrous material with the clinical term for growths, emerging in 19th-century medical literature.
These growths earned their 'many-footed' name from ancient anatomists who thought they resembled tiny octopuses, even though they're really just harmless collections of excess tissue that doctors can usually remove quite easily.
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