PAPILLARY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does papillary mean? 

• PAPILLARY (adjective)
  The adjective PAPILLARY has 1 sense:

1. of or relating to or resembling papilla

  Familiarity information: PAPILLARY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PAPILLARY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of or relating to or resembling papilla

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Synonyms:

papillary; papillose

Pertainym:

papilla (a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell)

Derivation:

papilla (a small projection of tissue at the base of a hair or tooth or feather)

papilla (a small nipple-shaped protuberance concerned with taste, touch, or smell)

 Context examples 

A morphologic variant of papillary carcinoma of the thyroid gland characterized by the presence of papillary or follicular structures, containing malignant follicular cells with abundant granular eosinophilic cytoplasm.

(Oncocytic Variant Thyroid Gland Papillary Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

It is characterized by the presence of neuroepithelial cells which form papillary, trabecular, or tubular structures.

(Medulloepithelioma, NCI Thesaurus)

Morphologically, adenocarcinomas are classified according to the growth pattern (e.g., papillary, alveolar) or according to the secreting product (e.g., mucinous, serous).

(Adenocarcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Papillary carcinoma has a tendency to recur locally, but rarely invades and metastasizes.

(Bladder Cancer Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/KEGG)

For intraductal papillary neoplasms of the intrahepatic bile ducts, the carcinomatous component is an intrahepatic cholangiocarcinoma; for intraductal papillary neoplasms of the extrahepatic bile ducts, the carcinomatous component is an adenocarcinoma.

(Bile Duct Papillary Neoplasm with an Associated Invasive Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

Recombination of the wild-type allele with the RET proto-oncogene wild-type allele is found in papillary thyroid carcinomas.

(NCOA4 wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)

A transitional cell carcinoma characterized by a papillary growth pattern and lack of stromal invasion.

(Non-Invasive Papillary Transitional Cell Carcinoma, NCI Thesaurus)

A non-invasive Choroid Plexus Tumor with a papillary architecture.

(Mouse Choroid Plexus Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus/MMHCC)

A benign exophytic squamous cell neoplasm with papillary growth that arises from the nasal vestibule.

(Nasal Vestibule Squamous Papilloma, NCI Thesaurus)

A papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder, characterized by marked architectural and cytologic abnormalities and frequent mitotic figures (at all levels of the urothelium).

(Non-Invasive Bladder Papillary Urothelial Carcinoma, High Grade, NCI Thesaurus)