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Scirrhoid

Scir′rhoid

(skĭr′roid)
,
Adj.
[
Scirrhus
+
-oid
.]
Resembling scirrhus.
Dunglison.

Definition 2024


scirrhoid

scirrhoid

English

Adjective

scirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)

  1. 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.