scirrhous

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He described (_a_) simple inflammation caused by excess of blood alone; (_b_) inflammation the result of excess of both pneuma and blood; (_c_) erysipelatous inflammation when yellow bile gains admission, and (_d_) scirrhous or cancerous when phlegm is present.

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  1. Proceeding from, or of the nature of, scirrhus; resembling a scirrhus; indurated: as, a scirrhous tumor. Blow, flute, and stir the stiff-set sprigs, And scirrhous roots and tendons. Tennyson, Amphion. A gamesome expression of face, shining, scirrhous skin, and a plump, ruby head. S. Judd, Margaret, i. 2.
  2. Scirrhous bronchocele cancer of the thyroid gland.
  3. Scirrhous cancer a hard carcinoma, with abundant stroma, usually of slow growth.

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  • He described (_a_) simple inflammation caused by excess of blood alone; (_b_) inflammation the result of excess of both pneuma and blood; (_c_) erysipelatous inflammation when yellow bile gains admission, and (_d_) scirrhous or cancerous when phlegm is present. —  Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
  • The bruised leaves have successfully resolved tumours of hard (scirrhous) cancer when cicuta, and mercury had failed Though used so commonly at table, facts have proved [412] that the herb, especially when uncooked, may bring on epilepsy in certain constitutions, or at least aggravate the fits in those who are subject to them. —  Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
  • If the alveoli are small and the intervening stroma is abundant and composed of dense fibrous tissue, the tumour is hard, and is known as a scirrhous cancer_--a form which is most frequently met with in the breast. —  Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition.
  • _Enlarged or scirrhous cords_ follow infection of the wound, usually with spores of a certain fungus (_Botryomyces_). —  Common Diseases of Farm Animals
  • Normand speaks of an ovary degenerating into a scirrhous mass weighing 55 pounds. —  Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
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  1. Also scirrous; from Old French scirrheux, French squirreux, squirrheux = Spanish escirroso = Portuguese scirrhoso = Italian scirroso, from New Latin *scirrhosus, from scirrhus, from Latin scirros, a hard swelling: see scirrhus.
 

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