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keratoma

American  
[ker-uh-toh-muh] / ˌkɛr əˈtoʊ mə /

noun

Pathology.

PLURAL

keratomas, keratomata

  1. keratosis.

Etymology

Origin of keratoma

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

Example Sentences

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

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

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