Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Resembling the matter of the brain.
Wiktionary
- adj. Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
- n. A malignant cancer of brain-like consistency.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Resembling the material of the brain; cerebriform.
- n. An encephaloid cancer.
Examples
“A variety of tumors attack the eyeball -- dermoid, papillary, fatty, cystic, and melanotic -- but perhaps the most frequent in the horse is encephaloid cancer.”
“The pigmentary, black tumors of white horses and soft (encephaloid) cancer may attack this part primarily or extend to it from the eyeball or eyelids; hairs have been found growing from its surface, and the mucous membrane covering it becomes inflamed in common with that covering the front of the eye.”
“Dr. George M'Lellan amputated arm and scapula in a youth of seventeen for an enormous encephaloid tumour.”
“The author has done this operation many times, in cases extensive and of old standing, for malignant disease, melanotic and encephaloid.”
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