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- noun See
scirrhus .
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- noun Alternative form of
scirrhus .
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Examples
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His disease finally assumed the form of cancer, or, more definitely, schirrhus of the stomach, — which, it will be recollected, caused the death of Napoleon I.
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The unwise custom of chewing and smoking tobacco for many hours in a day not only injures the salivary glands, producing dryness in the mouth when this drug is not used, but I suspect that it also produces schirrhus of the pancreas.
Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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This appearance of what was mistaken for chyle in the blood, which was drawn from these patients, and the obstructed liver, which very frequently accompanies this disease, seems to have led Dr. Mead to suspect the diabetes was owing to a defect of sanguification; and that the schirrosity of the liver was the original cause of it: but as the schirrhus of the liver is most frequently owing to the same causes, that produce the diabetes and dropsies; namely, the great use of fermented liquors; there is no wonder they should exist together, without being the consequence of each other.
Zoonomia, Vol. I Or, the Laws of Organic Life Erasmus Darwin 1766
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