Meanings
nouncorneocyte (plural corneocytes)
plural corneocytes
- An outer skin cell.
The cells at the surface of our skin have undergone a major ‘remodelling’ (differentiation) to become corneocytes, which are flattened polygonal plates made mainly of keratin (the same protein that makes nails, hair, and also feathers in birds).
2011, Terence Allen, Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford, page 10
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