Medical Definition of Hyperkeratinization

1. 1. Hypertrophy of the corneous layer of the skin. 2a. Any of various conditions marked by hyperkeratosis. 2b. A disease of cattle marked by thickening and wringling of the hide and formation of papillary outgrowths on the buccal mucous membranes, often accompanied by watery discharge from eyes and nose, diarrhoea, loss of condition and abortion of pregnant animals and now believed to result from ingestion of the chlorinated naphthalene of various lubricating oils. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hyperkeratinization

hyperintensities
hyperintensity
hyperinvolution
hyperion
hyperirritable
hyperisotonic
hyperjudgmental
hyperjump
hyperjumps
hyperkalaemia
hyperkalaemic periodic paralysis
hyperkalemia
hyperkalemic
hyperkaliaemia
hyperkaluresis
hyperkeratinization (current term)
hyperkeratoses
hyperkeratosis
hyperkeratosis congenita
hyperkeratosis eccentrica
hyperkeratosis figurata centrifuga atrophica
hyperkeratosis lenticularis perstans
hyperkeratosis subungualis
hyperkeratotic
hyperketonaemia
hyperketonuria
hyperkinaemia

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