| scirrhous | <medicine> Proceeding from scirrhus; of the nature of scirrhus; indurated; knotty; as, scirrhous affections; scirrhous disease. Alternative forms: skirrhous. Origin: NL. Scirrhosus. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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| scirrhous carcinoma | <tumour> A hard carcinoma, fibrous in nature, resulting from a desmoplastic reaction by the stromal tissue to the presence of the neoplastic epithelium. Synonym: fibrocarcinoma. (05 Mar 2000) |
| adenocarcinoma, scirrhous | An adenocarcinoma with a hard (greek skirrhos, hard) structure owing to the formation of dense connective tissue in the stroma. (12 Dec 1998) |
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