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Interstitial keratitis
A deep form of non-suppurative keratitis with vascularization, occurring usually in syphilis and rarely in tuberculosis. It commonly occurs between ages 5 and 15. Symptoms include pain, photophobia, lacrimation, and loss of vision. Inflammation affecting the layers that make up the cornea, or interstitial pregnancy.
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Hypopyon keratitis
A serpent-like ulcer with pus in the anterior chamber of the eye.
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Herpetic keratitis
Dendritic keratitis in herpes zoster or herpes simplex infections.
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Fascicular keratitis
A corneal ulcer resulting from phlyctenules that spread from limbus to the center of cornea accompanied by fascicle of blood vessels.
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Exposure keratitis
Epithelial defects of the cornea that result from inadequate protection of the eye by the eyelids, as in Bell’s palsy.
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Keratitis disciformis
A gray, disk-shaped opacity in the middle of the cornea. A type of keratitis, which denotes inflammation of the cornea positioned at the front of the eye, manifests as the development of a disk-shaped opacity within the corneal tissue. Typically, this occurrence arises as an immune response to a viral infection.
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Chlamydial keratitis
Corneal ulcerations that accompany chlamydial infection of the conjuctiva.
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Cultured Keratinocyte
Keratinocytes that are grown in the laboratory so that a small biopsy sample from uninjured skin may grow as a sheet and expand to have a surface area 1,000 to 10,000 times the area of the sample. The sheet can be used to cover wounds such as burns. The culture technique requires 2 to 3…
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Keratinase
An enzyme that hydrolyzes the protein keratin.
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Soft keratin
Keratin found in the epidermis of the skin as the flexible, tough stratum corneum in the form of flattened non-nucleated scales which slough continually.
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