snub. (mining engineering). To increase the height of an undercut by means of explosives or otherwise. To check the descent of a car by the turn of a rope around a post.
Sessile polyps simply mean that the mass is flat and does not have a stalk. The other types of colonic polyps are pedunculated- these are not flat but attached to a stalk. Since a sessile colonic polyp does not have a stalk, it is usually found very close to the colonic wall lining.
True polyps are abnormal accumulations of mucous membrane tissue that would normally be shed by the body. The main types of polypoid growths of the gallbladder include cholesterol polyp/cholesterosis, cholesterosis with fibrous dysplasia of gallbladder, adenomyomatosis, hyperplastic cholecystosis, and adenocarcinoma.