scirrhus
Americannoun
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scirrhi,
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scirrhuses
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noun
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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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Another termination of scirrhus is in cancer, as described below.
From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Erasmus Darwin
Mrs. T——, aged 56 years, of an excessively corpulent habit, had been affected for a great number of years with a scirrhus of the right breast.
From Cases of Organic Diseases of the Heart by John Collins Warren
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
"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
Should I register in my journal in the beginning of a scirrhus?
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
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