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1. Pertaining to the delivery of many offspring at one birth; multiparous: In her biology class at school, Amy learned about polytocous childbirth and the causes of such partitions.
2. Concerning vegetation producing flowers or fruit many times during its life cycle: Perennials are considered to be polytocous plants that have blossoms repeatedly.

1. Very hairy; thickly covered with hair; especially in comparison with other people of the same race and sex.
2. Excessive hairiness.
3. An excessive growth of the hair.

1. A reference to obtaining nourishment from a variety of organic material; such as, certain bacteria.
2. Exhibiting an attraction, trophism, for multiple organs; usually used for a virus which affects multiple organ systems.

1. Feeding on a variety of different food substances or food species.
2. In pathology, marked by or pertaining to excessive nutrition.

Relating to long-chain carbon compounds; especially, fats, having many unsaturated bonds.

Excessive urination, as in some diseases.

A descriptive term for the excretion of an abnormally large quantity of urine.

1. A parasite associated with many hosts during its life-cycle.
2. A parasite that is not host specific; also, pleioxeny.

An obsolete term for minute water colonial invertebrates; bryozoan: Polyzoans are animals that form branching, mosslike colonies, and reproduce by budding.

Concerning an organism composed of various zooids: A polyzoic lifeform has many motile cells or bodies, like a tapeworm, that typically divide into proglottids that consistently shed into the surrounding area to infect other animals.

Emotionally induced excessive water drinking at night.

Excessive fluid consumption resulting from a disorder of the personality, without any demonstrable organic lesion (pathological or traumatic discontinuity of tissue or loss of the function of a body part).