scirrhous cord

scirrhous cord
chronic fibrous enlargement of the stump of the spermatic cord of a castrated horse caused by bacterial infection, with discharge of pus and sometimes formation of a tumorlike mass with numerous weeping sinuses.

Medical dictionary. 2011.

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