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Definition of Cornifies
1. cornify [v] - See also: cornify
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cornifies
Literary usage of Cornifies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The British Journal of Dermatology by British Association of Dermatology (1907)
"... eruption dries (cornifies), but does not crust. With a glass the papules were
rather conical, and many were crater-like, ie with the summit scooped out. ..."
2. A Manual of Pathological Anatomy by Karl Rokitansky (1854)
"In this sense the fibroid texture enters into the composition of various heterologous
growths, constituting in them the benign ingredient which cornifies or ..."
3. The Anatomy of the Domestic Fowl by Benjamin Franklyn Kaupp (1918)
"... later still, into a cell of the stratum lucidum; and finally into an element
of the stratum corneum, where it gradually loses its nucleus, cornifies, ..."
4. Transactions of the Annual Meeting by Ohio State Medical Society (1892)
"It appropriates the oxygen of the young epidermic cells and cornifies them, and
this is the reason why we see in a short time, like in cases one and three, ..."
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