scirrhosity
(sɪˈrɒsɪtɪ, sk-)
Also 6 schirrositye, 7 scirrosity, 7–8 schirrosity, 8 scyrrhosity, schirrhosity.
[ad. mod.L. scirrhōsitās, f. late L. scirrhōs-us scirrhous: see -ity.]
A morbid hardness or scirrhous condition of an organ or a part; the quality or state of being scirrhous.
| 1599 A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 363/1 First on the schirrositye, be it wher it will, you must applye a little Sheepes-woolle dipped in Oyle of Lillyes. 1601 Holland Pliny xxx. iii. II. 406 They breed obstructions and schirrhosities in the bellie. 1669 Phil. Trans. IV. 980 In diseases of..Spleen Liver and Mesentery; and the scirrosity and hardness of those parts. 1730 Stuart ibid. XXXVI. 346 In Scyrrhosities of the Liver. 1733 Cheyne Eng. Malady ii. vii. §1 (1734) 184 A discoverable..Schirrosity, or Cancer already extant in it [the Stomach]. 1762 R. Guy Pract. Obs. Cancers 30 They often produce Schirrhosities which have afterwards proved cancerous. 1776–84 Cullen First Lines Physic §258 Wks. 1827 II. 12 It is in glandular parts chiefly that scirrhosity is observed. 1822–29 Good's Study Med. (ed. 3) I. 387 The existence of transverse filaments [in the gut] is generally preceded by scirrhosity. |