keratohyalin

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Introduction

The substance in large basophilic granules of flattened cells in the stratum granulosum of the epidermis. Keratohyalin becomes the keratin of the stratum corneum.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.