KELOID

n. Kel'loid. From (ojAis. a scar, or x*)*>). a claw, and elios, resemblance. Lat., chelis, cheloides, aieloiua, k-clis, kelus, kelodes, cancrois. Fr., kelo'ide. chelo'ide, cancro'ide, excroi ance can cere use, dartre degrai e. Ger.,K., Knollenkrebs. It.,cheloide. Sp., queloide. Of Alibert, a neoplastic, fibrous growth of the skin, occurring in circumscribed, usually isolated patches, forming smooth, rounded, irregularly shaped elevations of a whitish or pale reddish color. At the periphery of the growth prolongations slightly resembling crab's claws usually extend in various directions in surrounding skin. The lesion is more or le sensitive to pre ure and is sometimes subject also to spontaneous pain. [G.] Cf. True k. and False k. Addlson's k. See MORPHOS A (2d def.). Alibert's k. See K. Cleat rii-ial k., False k. Lat., cheloides, kelodes spuria, cheloma trauniaticum. Fr..fatt e kelo'ide. Ger., falsches K., Karbenk\ K. that develops from a pre-existing cicatrix. Superficially it differs little from true k., and microscopically in the absence of the papillae of the skin at the site of the original cicatrix, which in true K. remain intact over the entire growth. [Kaposi (G, 47).] Idiopatliic k. See True k.K. of cicatrices, K. of scars. See False fc. Spontaneous k. See True k. Spurious k, Traumatic k. See False k. True k. Lat., kelodes genuina. Fr., vraie kelo'ide, chelo'ide spontanee. Ger.. wahres (oder spontanes) K. K. that develops spontaneously and not from a pre-existing cicatrix. [G.] See A. [s. 532]