scirrhus
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scirrhi,
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scirrhuses
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Origin of scirrhus
1595–1605; < New Latin < Latin scirros < Greek skírrhos, variant of skîros hard covering, derivative of skirós hard
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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.
From The History of Napoleon Buonaparte by J. G. (John Gibson) Lockhart
"The extirpation of the ovarian cyst in scirrhus, combined with dropsy, or in simple dropsy."
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
The scirrhus and encephaloid of the earlier writers are now transformed into fibrous and medullary cancer.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Others averred that his attack was most serious,—an ossification or a scirrhus of some cartilage, a thing always fatal and dreadfully painful.
From Davenport Dunn, Volume 1 (of 2) A Man Of Our Day by Charles James Lever
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.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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