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See Keratose.

Producing horn; as, the keratogenous membrane within the horny hoof of the horse.

Same as Keratosa.

An instrument for dividing the cornea in operations for cataract.

The operation of removing a cataract by thrusting a needle through the cornea of the eye, and breaking up the opaque mass.

A gorgonian coral having a horny axis.

An order of sponges having a skeleton composed of hornlike fibers. It includes the commercial sponges.

into the composition of the skeleton of sponges, and other invertebrates; -- called also keratode.

A figure or picture impressed by lightning upon the human body or elsewhere. -- Ker`au-nog"ra-phy, n.

See Kinesiatrics.

That can be lacerated or torn.

To tear; to rend; to separate by tearing; to mangle; as, to lacerate the flesh. Hence: To afflict; to torture; as, to lacerate the heart.

Rent; torn; mangled; as, a lacerated wound. By each other's fury lacerate Southey.

The act of lacerating.

Lacerating, or having the power to lacerate; as, lacerative humors. Harvey.

An old game at cards. See Loo (a) Tatler.

Toward the side; away from the mesial plane; -- opposed to mesiad.

Of or pertaining to the sides; as, the lateral walls of a house; the lateral branches of a tree.

The state or condition of being lateral.

By the side; sidewise; toward, or from, the side.