keroid

English

Etymology

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

Noun

keroid (countable and uncountable, plural keroids)

1. (medicine) A thick overgrowth of tissue on severe burns.
   • 1992, Archives of Complex Environmental Studies:

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

   • 2006, Heike Raphael-Hernandez, Shannon Steen, AfroAsian Encounters: Culture, History, Politics, →ISBN, page 288:

     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.

   • 2015, Matthew Edwards, The Atomic Bomb in Japanese Cinema: Critical Essays, →ISBN, page 136:

     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.

2. (medicine) Thick horn-like scar tissue.
   • 2004, Salim Daya, Robert Frederick Harrison, Roger D. Kempers, Advances in Fertility and Reproductive Medicine, page 188:

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

   • 2008, Civil Society Focus - Issue 1, page 26:

     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.

3. A kerosene dispersion of carbon black for spraying tires before vulcanization to obtain high gloss and to facilitate removal from the mold.
   • 1937, Report of the Delegation of the United States, page 36:

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

   • 1989, Dan Simmons, Hyperion, →ISBN:

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

Adjective

keroid (not comparable)

1. (medicine) Horn-like; keratinous.
   • 1992, Digestion - Volumes 51-53, page 167:

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

   • 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 Current Eye Research, volume 20, number 4:

     Tranilast has also been reported to inhibit the synthesis of collagen by fibroblasts from keroid and hypertrophic scar as well as normal scar.

   • 2014, B Jurkiewicz, T Ząbkowski, “Nonkeratinised Squamous Metaplasia of the Urinary Bladder in Children: A Report of Case Experiences”, in BioMed research international, volume 2014, number 936970:

     Histopathology examination—a nest of nonkeratinising stratified squamous epithelium; no keroid layer; basally connective tissue.