Definition of Scirrhoid

1. a. Resembling scirrhus.

Definition of Scirrhoid

1. Adjective. Resembling scirrhus. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Scirrhoid

1. [adj]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Scirrhoid

sciopticon
sciopticons
scioptics
scioptric
sciosophy
sciotheric
scioun
scious
scire facias
sciroc
scirocco
sciroccos
scirocs
scirrhencanthis
scirrhi
scirrhoid (current term)
scirrhosities
scirrhosity
scirrhous
scirrhous carcinoma
scirrhus
scirrhuses
sciscitation
sciscitations
scise
scised
scises
scising
scism

Literary usage of Scirrhoid

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of the Eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"scirrhoid callosity of the eyelids. A hard tuberculated warty-like degeneration of the whole thickness of the eyelid, commonly the lower, at the tarsal ..."

2. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"scirrhoid callosity of the eyelids. A hard, tuberculated, warty-like degeneration of the whole thickness of the eyelid, commonly the lower, at the tarsal ..."

3. Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal (1852)
"A few days before death the right leg swelled, and fluid was detected in the peritoneal cavity. On post-mortem examination a scirrhoid condition of the left ..."

4. The Lancet (1842)
"... in the upper third of the orifice the scirrhoid deposit was half an inch in thickness ; in the other two-thirds, or depending portion, one inch and a ..."

5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1883)
"In atrophy, in morbid softening, especially in fatty metamorphosis of the gland structure itself, and lastly in scirrhoid induration, the tissue of the duct ..."

6. Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal (1844)
"... ,scirrhoid,and colloid forms of tumour. Almost from the very beginning of the disease it may be regarded as constitutional, and, though extirpated, ..."

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