Definition of "keratogenous" []

• That produces horny tissue (adjective)

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• "Extensive slit-like cuts in this region, when deep enough to lacerate the keratogenous membrane, are sometimes followed by the growth of a fissure in the horn, and what might almost be termed a permanent sand-crack results."
• "Portions of this loose horn removed reveal beneath it a caseous foetid matter, easily removed by scraping (the perverted secretion of the keratogenous membrane)."
• "The superficial layer of the keratogenous membrane in which we have judged the disease to exist is, after all, but a delicate structure."