scirrhus

[ skir-uhs, sir- ]

noun

, Pathology.

, plural scir·rhi [skir, -ahy, sir, -ahy], scir·rhus·es.

1. a firm, densely collagenous cancer.

scirrhus

/ ˈsɪrəs; ˈsɪrɔɪd /

noun

1. pathol a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues Also calledscirrhous carcinoma

Derived 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

An Inflammation may also become hard, when it forms what we call a Scirrhus, which is a very hard Tumour, indolent, or unpainful.

From Project Gutenberg

During the Progress of this violent Disease, no Food is to be allowed; and we should never be too inattentive to such Degrees of Pain, as sometimes remain after their Severity is over; lest a Scirrhus, an inward hard Tumour, should be generated, which may occasion the most inveterate and tedious Maladies.

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

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.

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