Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard dense cancerous growth usually arising from connective tissue.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hard tumor; specifically and now exclusively, a scirrhous cancer. See above.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete An indurated organ or part; especially, an indurated gland.
- noun A cancerous tumor which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete An
indurated organ or part, especially agland . - noun obsolete A
cancerous tumour which is hard,translucent , of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound whenincised .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word scirrhus.
Examples
-
At sunset a lump of scirrhus before the sun was so dense that its dark shadow formed a brush like the trabes of a comet.
Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003
-
Occasional manifestations of its presence had been exhibited for some years, but his usual health always returned after every attack, and its fatal nature was not suspected, although Napoleon himself had several times said that he should die of a scirrhus in the pylorus, the disease which killed his father, and which the physicians of
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
-
The motions of the shoulder upon the trunk do not influence the position of the female mammary gland, for the pectoral muscle acts freely beneath it; but when a scirrhus or other malignant growth involves the mammary organ, and this latter contracts, by the morbid mass, a close adhesion to the muscle, then these motions are performed with pain and difficulty.
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
-
She was sixty-four years of age, and laboured under scirrhus of the breast.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 Various
-
Baron Stoerck first brought the plant into repute (1760) as a medicine of extraordinary efficacy for curing inveterate scirrhus, cancer, and ulcers, such as were hitherto deemed irremediable.
Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie
-
Formed with or having saclike expansions. scirrhus
Surgical Anatomy Joseph Maclise
-
Dr. Arnott, an English physician, already referred to, who attended on Napoleon's death-bed, has informed us that he himself frequently reverted to the fact, that his father died of scirrhus of the pylorus.
The History of Napoleon Buonaparte Lockhart, John G 1906
-
Such local dilatation at this point of the veins is incurable, but there are also hard tumors like scirrhus and malignant tumors, and those of great size.
Old-Time Makers of Medicine The Story of The Students And Teachers of the Sciences Related to Medicine During the Middle Ages James Joseph Walsh 1903
-
The site of the conception is generally the wall of the uterus, the Fallopian tube, or the ovary, although there are instances of pregnancy in the vagina, as for example when there is scirrhus of the uterus; 2.2 and again, cases supposed to be only extrauterine have been instances simply of double uterus, with single or concurrent pregnancy.
-
Fallopian tube, or the ovary, although there are instances of pregnancy in the vagina, as for example when there is scirrhus of the uterus; and again, cases supposed to be only extrauterine have been instances simply of double uterus, with single or concurrent pregnancy.
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.