scirrhoid

[skir-oid, sir-]

scir·rhoid

[skir-oid, sir-]
adjective Pathology.
resembling a scirrhus.

Origin:
1850–55; scirrh(us) + -oid
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Scirrhoid is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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scirrhus (ˈsɪrəs)
 
n , pl -rhi, -rhuses
pathol Also called: scirrhous carcinoma a hard cancerous growth composed of fibrous tissues
 
[C17: from New Latin, from Latin scirros, from Greek skirros, from skiros hard]
 
scirrhoid
 
adj

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