Hyperkeratosis
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
- UMLS:C0870082
- SNOMEDCT_US:26996000
- SNOMEDCT_US:396228006
- MEDDRA:10020649 (Hyperkeratosis)
- SNOMEDCT_US:399955009
hposlim_core
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.
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