keratoma

[ ker-uh-toh-muh ]

noun

, Pathology.

, plural ker·a·to·mas, ker·a·to·ma·ta [ker-, uh, -, toh, -m, uh, -t, uh].

1. keratosis.

Word History and Origins

Origin of keratoma¹

First recorded in 1885–90; kerat- + -oma

Example Sentences

In our nomenclature the terms 'Keratoma' and 'Keraphyllocele' are both used to indicate the condition we have just described.

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Keratoma may thus be used to describe what we have called keraphyllocele directly that growth makes its appearance at the sole, and is there able to be cut with the knife.

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Keratoma probably offers us the best analogy we have to corn of the human subject.

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