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corn +‎ -ify, from Latin cornu (horn)

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cornify (third-person singular simple present cornifies, present participle cornifying, simple past and past participle cornified)

  1. (chiefly medicine) To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
    • 1985, Moschella & Hurley, Dermatology[1], 2nd edition, volume 1, page 51:
      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.

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