Meanings
verbcornify (third-person singular simple present cornifies, present participle cornifying, simple past and past participle cornified)
present singular third person cornifies · participle present cornifying · participle past cornified · past cornified
- medicineTo convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
No longer in contact with an inner root sheath, the isthmus epithelium cornifies without a granular zone, and the thin cornified layer is composed of compactly arranged cornified cells.
1985, Moschella & Hurley, Dermatology, 2nd edition, volume 1, page 51
Origin
From corn + -ify, from Latin cornu (“horn”).
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