Hornify vs Cornify - What's the difference?
hornify | cornify |
To make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden.
* 1930 , The Journal of the American Dental Association: Volume 17
(colloquial) To make horny; to excite sexually; to arouse.
* 2005 , Jeff Harris, Fay and Eddy (page 88)
(obsolete) To horn; to cuckold.
(chiefly, medicine) To convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance
*{{quote-book, 1985, Moschella & Hurley, Dermatology, edition=2nd ed., volume=1
, passage=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.}}
As verbs the difference between hornify and cornify
is that hornify is to make horny, or like horn in texture; to harden while cornify is (chiefly|medicine) to convert or be converted into horn or a similar substance.hornify
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- We see in Figure 8 that the hornified cuticle runs continuously over the cementum
- The air and the water hornified him. Then he met her. The sun was making her horny, and the sunset got her horny, and the moon, and the trees and the birds, they all got her horny
- (Beaumont and Fletcher)
cornify
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