Definition of "keraphyllocele" []

• A sharply defined horn tumor projecting from the inner surface of the wall of a horse's hoof and appearing at the plantar surface as a semicircular thickening of the white line. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Keratoma may thus be used to describe what we have called keraphyllocele directly that growth makes its appearance at the sole, and is there able to be cut with the knife."
• "If the horny tumor, known as keraphyllocele, should develop, it is to be removed by the use of the knife."
• "The pressure of a tumour (in this case a keraphyllocele) has led to rarefactive changes in the bone, forming a neat indentation in the normal contour of the bone which serves to accommodate the tumour."