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Definition of Scirrhous
1. a. Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease.
Definition of Scirrhous
1. [adj]
Medical Definition of Scirrhous
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Scirrhous
Literary usage of Scirrhous
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Anatomy and Physiology by Anatomical Society of Great Britain and Ireland (1879)
"SIR JAMES FACET observes: " The scirrhous or hard cancers in the breast are very far
... The formation of a scirrhous cancer of the breast consists in the ..."
2. The Journal of Comparative Pathology and Therapeutics (1892)
"THE TREATMENT OF scirrhous CORD. WE have on more than one occasion called attention
to the remarkable efficacy of iodide of potassium in the treatment of ..."
3. The Roentgen Diagnosis of Diseases of the Alimentary Canal by Russell Daniel Carman (1920)
"The filling-defects of scirrhous cancer are less grossly irregular than ...
It gives practically the same screen and plate picture as the scirrhous form. ..."
4. Surgical Pathology and Morbid Anatomy by Anthony Alfred Bowlby (1887)
"Secondary changes in scirrhous carcinomata are of common occurrence, for, ...
By far the most common seat of scirrhous carcinoma is the female breast, ..."
5. The Works of Sir Benjamin Collins Brodie: ... with an Autobiography by Benjamin Collins Brodie, Charles Hawkins (1865)
"IF a scirrhous tumour of the female breast be left to take its ... would scarcely
ever consent to the removal of a scirrhous tumour of the breast under ..."
6. Lectures on surgical pathology by James Paget (1865)
"The chief forms of cancer are named severally scirrhous, Medullary, Epithelial,
Colloid, Osteoid, ... First, I will speak of scirrhous or Hard Cancer. ..."
7. Diseases of the Digestive Organs: With Special Reference to Their Diagnosis by Charles Dettie Aaron (1921)
"The forms of gastric carcinoma, in the order of their frequency, are: Medullary
carcinoma, adenocarcinoma, colloid carcinoma, and scirrhous carcinoma. ..."
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