Meanings
adjectivescirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)
comparative more scirrhoid · superlative most scirrhoid
- Containing or resembling schirrus
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.
1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library
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Translations
Italian scirroso
- scirrosoTranslations
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