Definition of "cornified" [cor•ni•fied]

• Converted into horn; horny. (adjective)
• Corny, or having been made corny. (adjective)
• Simple past tense and past participle of cornify. (verb)

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• "Projecting from their apices are numerous filamentous processes, or secondary papillæ these are of a whitish tint, owing to the thickness and density of the epithelium of which they are composed, which has here undergone a peculiar modification, the cells having become cornified and elongated into dense, imbricated, brush-like processes."
• "Many of them contain projecting cornified plugs which may be squeezed out, leaving pit-like depressions."
• "Riveira-Munoz E, Zeeuwen PL, Robarge J, Liao W, et al. (2009) Deletion of the late cornified envelope LCE3B and LCE3C genes as a susceptibility factor for psoriasis."