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keroid

keroid noun: a thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns.

Noun

keroid (countable and uncountable, plural keroids)

  1. A thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns.
    • The keroid formation at the burn site could be avoided after the prompt first aid and the appropriate treatment including application of HFB-jelly.1992, Archives of Complex Environmental Studies
    • Read in Japanese by a woman, the entries provide a series of testimonies of the atomic bomb: student factory workers dying, bodies covered with keroid; children sent off by train to safer locations while their parents died; a daughter who never returned from a hiking trip to eat the peach her...2006, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Shannon Steen, AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, →ISBN, page 288
  2. Thick horn-like scar tissue.
    • Analogous situations include the formation of keroids after surgery and atherosclerotic plaques after vascular injury.2004, Salim Daya, Robert Frederick Harrison, Roger D. Kempers, Advances in Fertility and Reproductive Medicine, page 188
    • There are also women who grow keroid in the incised parts as it happens when body organs are bruised. "but this is also cruelity, humiliation and infringement of basic human rights as it affects woman's full enjoyment of sex for her entire life.2008, Civil Society Focus - Issue 1, page 26
  3. A kerosene dispersion of carbon black for spraying tires before vulcanization to obtain high gloss and to facilitate removal from the mold.
    • The greatest quantity of casein goes to the manufacture of plastic substances like galalith, galakerit, keroid, proteolith, and others.1937, Report of the Delegation of the United States, page 36
    • But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids.1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, →ISBN

Adjective

keroid (not comparable)

  1. Horn-like; keratinous.
    • The effect of histamine on growth of cultured fibroblasts isolated from normal and keroid tissue.1992, Digestion - Volumes 51-53, page 167
    • Tranilast has also been reported to inhibit the synthesis of collagen by fibroblasts from keroid and hypertrophic scar as well as normal scar.2000, T Oshima, D Kurosaka, K Kato, H Kurosaka, Y Mashima, Y Tanaka, S Tajima, “Tranilast inhibits cell proliferation and collagen synthesis by rabbit corneal and Tenon's capsule fibroblasts”, in...

Forms of keroid

pluralkeroids

Origin of keroid

From Ancient Greek κέρας (kéras, “horn”) + -oid.

Questions about keroid

What does keroid mean?
Keroid means a thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns.
What part of speech is keroid?
Keroid can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of keroid?
The plural of keroid is keroids.

Words near keroid in the dictionary

  1. kero-
  2. Kerobokan
  3. kerogen
  4. kerogenous
  5. kerogens
  6. keroid
  7. keroids
  8. kerokan
  9. kerolite
  10. kerolites
  11. kerolox

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