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‖ scirrhus Path.|ˈsɪrəs, sk-|
Pl. scirrhi, also anglicized scirrhusses. Also 7 skyrrhus, schirrous, 7–8 schirrhus, 8–9 schirrus, pl. 7 scirri, 8 schirri.
[mod.L., a. Gr. σκίρρος, properly σκῖρος a hard coat or covering, a hardened swelling or tumour, related to σκῑρός hard. Cf. F. scirre (16th c.; now squirre), Sp. escirro, Pg. scirrho, scirro, It. scirro.]
1. A hard, firm, and almost painless swelling or tumour; now spec. a hard cancer.
1615Crooke Body of Man 460 In this place sayth Bauhine..I found a scirrhus or hard tumor. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 1000 For a Schirrous of the womb he useth a Buprestis. 1660Jer. Taylor Worthy Commun. ii. §3. 140 The Priest..thrusts his hand into the region of the lower belly, and looks if there be an ulcer, or a scirrhus. 1674–7J. Molins Anat. Obs. (1896) 20 The weaknesse of the Liver caused by a Skyrrhus. 1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Schirri and scirri are hard swellings in the flesh, without pain, but hardly curable. 1684Boyle Porousn. Anim. & Solid Bodies vi. 55 The outward Medicine resolved the scirrhus. 1766Gentl. Mag. Dec. 578/2 A schirrus in the right breast..had considerably encreased, looked livid, oozed a little, and was painful. 1782Heberden Comm. iii. (1806) 13 Dropsy..or scirrhi of some of the viscera. 1866A. Flint Princ. Med. (1880) 46 A scirrhus is a hard cancer in which the fibrous stroma predominates.
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1646Fuller Wounded Consc. (1647) 22 And when that Callum, Schirrus or Incrustation drawn over it by nature..is once fleyed off, the Conscience becomes so pliant and supple, that the least imaginable touch is painfull unto it.
2. The disease of having a scirrhus (sense 1); an instance or attack of this disease.
1605Timme Quersit. iii. 161 Of the congelations of these salts comes goutes stones, scirrhus, hardnesse, and divers kinds of obstructions. 1651Biggs New Disp. §155 The dysentery, Colick or nephritick Convulsions, schirrhus, &c. 1719Quincy Compl. Disp. 121 It somewhat inclines by Urine, and is reckon'd good in Schirri. 1732Arbuthnot Rules of Diet in Aliments, etc. 323 And many chronical Distempers, as Jaundice, Dropsy, Schirrus's and Scurvies. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 126 To regard schirrus as one of the usual effects of ordinary inflammation. 1872Peaslee Ovar. Tumors 20, I also think a single ovary to be more frequently affected by scirrhus than both. 1899Allbutt's Syst. Med. VI. 97 According to Douglas Powell, scirrhus is the most frequent form [of mediastinal cancer]. |