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Hyperkeratosis

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Hyperkeratosis is thickening of the outer layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, which is composed of large, polyhedral, plate-like envelopes filled with keratin which are the dead cells that have migrated up from the stratum granulosum. [ HPO:probinson ]

Term info

database cross reference
  • UMLS:C0870082
  • SNOMEDCT_US:26996000
  • SNOMEDCT_US:396228006
  • MEDDRA:10020649 (Hyperkeratosis)
  • SNOMEDCT_US:399955009
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hposlim_core

definition

Hyperkeratosis is thickening of the outer layer of the skin, the stratum corneum, which is composed of large, polyhedral, plate-like envelopes filled with keratin which are the dead cells that have migrated up from the stratum granulosum.

has alternative id

HP:0007523

id

HP:0000962

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