In the stomach and oesophagus the scirrhous form is most common, the softencephaloid form coming next.
If the alveoli are large and the intervening stroma is scanty and delicate, the tumour is soft and brain-like, and is described as a medullary or encephaloid cancer.
For the diseases of the cartilage itself, see "Encephaloid cancer.
Melanosis occurs most frequently in advanced life, though it is not confined to it; whereas encephaloid attacks indiscriminately all ages.
In several instances I have removed encephaloid tumours, from the situation both of the mamma and testicle, and the disease did not return; but in the other cases the result has been as above stated.
If the finger be passed into the bowel in a case of encephaloid degeneration, it will encounter a large soft tumor occluding the gut: this is a very different sensation from that imparted to the finger in a case of epithelioma or scirrhus.
The encephaloid variety is prone to very sudden and rapid breaking down, and may destroy life within a few months.
Encephaloid and colloid are of quite infrequent occurrence.
The usual form in cancer of the liver is the soft, cellular variety, encephaloid or medullary.
Scheffer[23] has reported a case of large ulcerated encephaloid cancer of the fundus, involving the spleen, in a boy fourteen years old.
Sometimes the connective-tissue element is less predominant, and gives place to a more or less luxuriant cell-development; in a word, scirrhous carcinoma is replaced by soft or encephaloid cancer.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "encephaloid" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
