Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Proceeding from, or of the nature of, scirrhus; resembling a scirrhus; indurated: as, a scirrhous tumor.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Med.) Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty.
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- adjective medicine Proceeding from
scirrhus ; of the nature of scirrhus.
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Examples
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In particular I became aware of an increasing callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach, and this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of that organ, either formed or forming.
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On opening the body after death, the walls of the whole of the right extremity of the stomach were found in a scirrhous and cancerous condition, and thickened to the extent of about two inches.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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Also it respecteth very much the hard scirrhous and cancarous tumours, and the grievous soares, and dangerous ulcers of the matrix.
Spadacrene Anglica The English Spa Fountain Edmund Deane
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Glandular enlargements not of scirrhous character, and excrescent growths not poisonous, may often be reduced, and perhaps sometimes cured, under the positive pole.
A Newly Discovered System of Electrical Medication Daniel Clark
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In particular I became aware of an increasing callousness or defect of sensibility in the stomach, and this I imagined might imply a scirrhous state of that organ either formed or forming.
The Opium Habit Horace B. Day
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The sweet Marjoram has also been successfully employed externally for healing scirrhous tumours of the breast.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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The bruised leaves have successfully resolved tumours of hard (scirrhous) cancer when cicuta, and mercury had failed.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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In this state, the walls of the organ are sometimes increased in thickness to the extent of ten or twelve lines, and are sometimes found also in a scirrhous or cancerous condition.
Select Temperance Tracts American Tract Society
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This has been applied externally with benefit for scirrhous cancer, and to ease the pain of nervous gout.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
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_Enlarged or scirrhous cords_ follow infection of the wound, usually with spores of a certain fungus (_Botryomyces_).
Common Diseases of Farm Animals R. A. Craig
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