单词 | scirrhoma |
释义 | scirrhoman. Medicine. Now rare. Originally: a scirrhous swelling or tumour. In later use: spec. carcinoma of a scirrhous type; an instance of this. Cf. scirrhus n. 1a.historical in quot. 1940. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > growth or excrescence > [noun] > tumour > hard tumour sclerosis1398 scirrhus1565 scirrhe?a1591 scirrhoma1601 nodea1610 scleriasis1684 sclerocele1811 scleroma1857 1601 P. Holland in tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. viii. 223 (margin) Some cal them [sc. schirrhous & hard swellings] Moones, Schirrhomata, otherwise Stocomata, which be bunches or swellings in the flesh full of a greasie matter. 1698 W. Cowper Anat. Humane Bodies Index Liver,..Scirrhoma Cur'd. 1834 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. III. 657/2 Carcinoma may be divided into two species, the first of which we have called scirrhoma, the second cephaloma. 1847 Dublin Q. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 4 309 I have not yet seen in them the schirroma, or hard variety of cancer. 1940 Amer. Jrnl. Surg. 48 707/1 In connection with his classification of cancer, Walshe mentioned thirty-three ‘synonyms’ (as, for example, struma fungosa, fungus haematodes, cerebroform degeneration,..scirrhoma, etc.) of the ‘species’ of cancer. 1999 Dict. Substances & Effects (Royal Soc. Chem.) (ed. 2) VII. 246 Several cases of malignant tumours have been reported associated with pacemakers which are covered in titanium, including scirrhomas mammary carcinomas, and adenocarcinoma. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1601 |
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