The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scirrhus \Scir"rhus\, n.; pl. L. Scirrhi, E. Scirrhuses. [NL., from L. scirros, Gr. ?, ?, fr. ?, ?, hard.] (Med.)
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context obsolete English) An indurated organ or part, especially a gland. 2 (context obsolete English) A cancerous tumour which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.
Usage examples of "scirrhus".
Occasional manifestations of its presence had been exhibited for some years, but his usual health always returned after every attack, and its fatal nature was not suspected, although Napoleon himself had several times said that he should die of a scirrhus in the pylorus, the disease which killed his father, and which the physicians of Montpelier declared would be hereditary in his family.
An indolent scirrhus, since it took so long in making itself known, and still is giving her no pain.
The princess has kreps, a consumptive scirrhus growing in her mesenteries.
If the dying takes too long, the scirrhus will eventually erupt through the skin as a gruesomely gaping and suppurating abscess.
And syrurgery would simply irritate the scirrhus into spreading faster.
Such local dilatation at this point of the veins is incurable, but there are also hard tumors like scirrhus and malignant tumors, and those of great size.