scirrhus

[skir-uhs, sir-]

noun

Pathology.

plural

scirrhi, scirrhuses 

1. a firm, densely collagenous cancer.

scirrhus

/ ˈsɪrəs, ˈsɪrɔɪd /

noun

1. Also called: scirrhous carcinoma. pathol a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues

Other Word Forms

• scirrhoid adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of scirrhus¹

1595–1605; < New Latin < Latin scirros < Greek skírrhos, variant of skîros hard covering, derivative of skirós hard

Word History and Origins

Origin of scirrhus¹

C17: from New Latin, from Latin scirros, from Greek skirros, from skiros hard

Example Sentences

The scirrhus and encephaloid of the earlier writers are now transformed into fibrous and medullary cancer.

From Project Gutenberg

It has never happened, at least within my Knowledge, that this Sort of the Disease, prudently treated, has ever terminated either in a Mortification, or a Scirrhus: but I have been a Witness to either of these supervening, when Sweating was extorted in the Beginning of it, by hot Medicines.

From Project Gutenberg

Should the Milk coagulate, or curdle as it were, in the Breast, it is of the utmost Importance immediately to attenuate or dissolve that Thickness, which would otherwise degenerate into a Hardness and prove a Scirrhus; and from a Scirrhus in Process of Time a Cancer, that most tormenting and cruel Distemper.

From Project Gutenberg

From the Moment these hard Tumours become excessively and obstinately so, and yet without any Pain, we should abstain from every Application, all are injurious; and greasy, sharp, resinous and spirituous ones speedily change the Scirrhus into a Cancer.

From Project Gutenberg

Or 2, this arrested Humour is repelled elsewhere, producing a Scirrhus in the Liver, or Asthmas, Apoplexy, Epilepsy, or Falling Sickness; horrible rheumatic Pains, or incurable Disorders of the Eyes, or of the Teguments, the Skin and Surface.

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