HORNY LAYER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horny layer mean? 

• HORNY LAYER (noun)
  The noun HORNY LAYER has 1 sense:

1. the outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off

  Familiarity information: HORNY LAYER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORNY LAYER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The outermost layer of the epidermis consisting of dead cells that slough off

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

corneum; horny layer; stratum corneum

Hypernyms ("horny layer" is a kind of...):

stratum (one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock))

Holonyms ("horny layer" is a part of...):

cuticle; epidermis (the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates)

 Context examples 

It consists of the following layers: stratum corneum (horny layer), stratum granulosum (granular layer), stratum spinosum (prickle cell layer), and stratum basale (basal cell layer).

(Epidermis, NCI Thesaurus)