Meaning

(medicine) A thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns..

Definitions by Sense

1. (medicine) A thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns.
2. (medicine) Thick horn-like scar tissue.
3. A kerosene dispersion of carbon black for spraying tires before vulcanization to obtain high gloss and to facilitate removal from the mold.
4. (medicine) Horn-like; keratinous.

Example Sentences

The keroid formation at the burn site could be avoided after the prompt first aid and the appropriate treatment including application of HFB-jelly.

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 mother saved for her.

After all, in their loving, neither Yuichi nor Yoko seeks any worldly gain: Yuichi is a recovering mental patient and Yasuko is a victim of radiation suffering from her disabling keroid, now darkly hidden in her buttocks.

Analogous situations include the formation of keroids after surgery and atherosclerotic plaques after vascular injury.

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.

The greatest quantity of casein goes to the manufacture of plastic substances like galalith, galakerit, keroid, proteolith, and others.

But it's still essential for the production of plastics, synthetics, food base, and keroids.

The effect of histamine on growth of cultured fibroblasts isolated from normal and keroid tissue.

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• keroids

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