cornification

[kawr-nuh-fi-key-shuhn]

noun Biology.

the formation of a horny layer of skin, or horny skin structures, as hair, nails, or scales, from squamous epithelial cells.

Origin:
1835–45; corn² + -i- + -fication

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Cornification is always a great word to know.

So is unfit. Does it mean:

a microscopic structure containing nuclear and cytoplasmic material enclosed by a semipermeable membrane, the basic structural unit of all organisms

an organism that is not adapted to prevailing conditions or producing offspring that maintain its contribution of genes to the next generation

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cornification cor·ni·fi·ca·tion (kôr'nə-fĭ-kā'shən)
n.
See keratinization.

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