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scirrhoid - What does it mean?

Definition of 'scirrhoid'

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • 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.