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English
Etymology
From scirrhus + -oid.
Adjective
scirrhoid (comparative more scirrhoid, superlative most scirrhoid)
- Containing or 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.
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