As it is our wish to impress our readers with the propriety of making a fair trial of this method, in cases of scirrhus and cancer, we shall select and translate a few cases from the latter essay.
In one, scirrhusof the pylorus was found; the stomach greatly enlarged; the small intestines contracted, red outside and gray within.
I am inclined to believe it is attacked with the disorder which killed my father--a scirrhus in the pylorus--the physicians of Montpelier prophesied it would be hereditary in our family.
Another termination of scirrhus is in cancer, as described below.
During this period scirrhus was regarded as the type of cancerous disease.
It is not certain whether Wilkinson's[20] often-quoted case of congenital scirrhus of the pylorus in an infant five weeks old was a cancer or an instance of simple hypertrophy.
He erroneously supposed that scirrhus of the stomach was only hypertrophy of the gastric walls.
Scirrhus usually implicates the gut in its entire circumference, so that a high degree of constriction may result from a small amount of cancerous infiltration.
Scirrhus may, however, appear as a circumscribed tumor.
I will not venture an opinion: but it is somewhat remarkable, that he often said that his father died of scirrhus of the pylorus; that the body was examined after death, and the fact ascertained.
The physicians of Montpellier had announced that the scirrhus in the pylorus would be hereditary in my family.
Not unfrequently the testicle is attacked by swellings of a more serious nature—medullary sarcoma is common, as also both fibrous and soft tumours, with cysts; scirrhus is more rare.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scirrhus" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
