scirrhoid

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Etymology[edit]

scirrhus +‎ -oid

Adjective[edit]

scirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)

  1. Containing or resembling scirrhus
    • 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library:
      In cases of extreme thickening of the coats of the stomach, of a scirrhoid character, where the suffering patients are almost worn out with constant pain, such remedies, applied over the epigastrium, most materially alleviate the distress.

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