Associations to the word «Scirrhus»

Wiktionary

SCIRRHUS, noun. (obsolete) An indurated organ or part, especially a gland.
SCIRRHUS, noun. (obsolete) A cancerous tumour which is hard, translucent, of a gray or bluish color, and emits a creaking sound when incised.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope