scirrhoid
English
Etymology
scirrhus + -oid
Adjective
scirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)
- 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.
- 1839, Robley Dunglison, Dunglison's American medical library