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Scirrhoid
Scir′rhoid
(skĭr′roid)
, Adj.
[
Scirrhus
+ -oid
.] Resembling scirrhus.
Dunglison.
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scirrhoid
scirrhoid
English
Adjective
scirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)
- Resembling scirrhus.
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library
- In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library