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- adjective (Anat.) Converted into horn; horny.
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- adjective
Converted intohorn ;horny . - adjective
Corny , or having been made corny. - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
cornify .
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Examples
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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.
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Many of them contain projecting cornified plugs which may be squeezed out, leaving pit-like depressions.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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GWAS, genome-wide association study; KC, keratinocyte; KIR, killer immunoglobulin-like receptors; LCE, late cornified envelope; LD, linkage disequilibrium; MHC, major histocompatibility complex; pDC, plasmacytoid dendritic cells; PsA, psoriatic arthritis;
Naturejobs - All Jobs James T Elder 2010
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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.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Malgorzata Romanowska et al. 2010
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Voskamp P, Cleton-Jansen A-M, South A, Nizetic D, et al. (2001) Structural organization and regulation of the small proline-rich family of cornified envelope precursors suggest a role in adaptive barrier function.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhihong Wu et al. 2009
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Schmidt R, Melino G (2005) The cornified envelope: a model of cell death in the skin.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhihong Wu et al. 2009
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The stages of estrous can be easily distinguished cytologically, with nucleated smears during proestrus, cornified smears during estrus, and leukocytic smears during diestrus.
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We could demonstrate that the filaggrin-2 protein is proteolytically processed and deposited in the epidermis and is localized in the granular and cornified layers of human skin.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Zhihong Wu et al. 2009
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Smears were characterized as diestrus if mostly polymorphonuclear leukocytes were present, proestrus when mostly small nucleated and some cornified cells were present, and estrus when the smear was completely cornified.
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Age at first estrus was recorded as the day when the first fully cornified smear occurred.
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