Med. Also (irreg.) keloid. [a. mod.F. chéloïde, badly kéloïde, according to Littré f. Gr. χήλη crab’s claw + -OID.]
A disease of the skin; see quots. Also attrib., as in cheloid scar, tumo(u)r, etc.
1876. trans. Wagner’s Gen. Pathol., 383. Keloid is a formation of the skin similar to a hypertrophic cicatrix.
1854. Dr. Addison, Wks. (1868), 177. What I have ventured to call ‘true Keloid.’
1878. T. Bryant, Pract. Surg., I. 159. The true cheloid.
1881. Syd. Soc. Lex., Cheloid … a skin disease … named by Alibert on account of the peculiar processes which radiate from its extremities, and appear like to the claws of a crab.
