keratic

English

Adjective

keratic (not comparable)

1. (ophthalmology) Arising from the cornea.
   • 2005, Hugh Cook, Cancer Patient, →ISBN, page 50:

     He also told me that he could see, on the cornea of my right eye, two keratic precipitates.

   • 2009, CIBA Foundation Symposium, Corneal Graft Failure, →ISBN, page 11:

     The patient then developed an allograft reaction; keratic deposits were present on the posterior surface of the graft, and the aqueous humour in the pocket between the membrane and the graft showed a positive ray with cells.

   • 2012, A.K. Gupta, Clinical Ophthalmology, →ISBN:

     Oedema may be so extensive that the keratic precipitates are not appreciated.

2. (medicine) rough and hard, especially as a result of keratinization.
   • 1882, Victor Cornil, Louis Ranvier, Alice Marion Rowlands Hart, Manual of Pathological Histology, page 256:

     Above the stratum lucidum is the horny or keratic layer in which the cells, reduced to simple dried laminae, form a collection of strata.

   • 1994, Dzhemal Sh. Beniashvili, Experimental Tumors in Monkeys, →ISBN, page 52:

     Keratinization of cells gradually increased and keratic pearls formed.

   • 2013, Masumi Inaba, Yoshitaka Inaba, Androgenetic Alopecia, →ISBN:

     The epidermal layer reacts to the production and adhesion of this keratic substance by descending along the artificial hair in a fashion that eventually encloses it.

Synonyms

• (arsing from the cornea): corneal.
• (rough and hard): horny, keratinous.

Anagrams

• kreatic, tackier, trackie