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Word Unit: cori- + (Latin: skin; hide, leather; the hide stripped off).

Cross references directly, or indirectly, involving the "skin": callus-; chorio-; cicatri- (scar); cuti-; hymen-; lepido- (scab, scale); papulo- (pimple); psoro- (itch, mange); pustu- (blister, pimple); rhytid- (wrinkle); scabio- (mange, itchy); sebo- (grease, oil).

Word Unit: coris- (Greek: korizesthai, "to caress"; via Late Latin: corisma).

Word Unit: corm- (Greek > Latin: trunk of a tree or body).

Word Unit: corn- (Latin: horn, horny).

Word Unit: corne-, corneo- + (Latin: horny, hornlike; horny [tissue] pertaining to the cornea, the horny transparent anterior portion of the external covering of the eyes).

Related references to "eye" or "eye part" word families: blepharo-; core-; eye, eyes; irido-; lenti-, lens-; lenticulo-; ocelli-; oculo-; op-, -optic; ophthalmo-; phaco-; pupillo-; retino-; uveo-.

Word Unit: coron, coroll- + (Latin: garland, wreath, crown; from a Greek source meaning, "anything curved; a wreath, garland").

Word Unit: corp-, corpor-, corpus- (Latin: body).

Word Unit: cortic-, cortico-, cort-, cortex + (Latin: bark, rind; literally, that which is "stripped off"; used in its extended senses, chief among these being "pertaining to the outer layer of a bodily organ, especially the brain").

Word Unit: coruscat- + (Latin: flash, sparkle, glitter; quiver).

Word Unit: cosmo-, cosm-, cosmico-, cosm, -cosmia, -cosmos, -cosmic, -cosmics, -cosmical, -cosmology, -cosms + (Greek: world, universe [from its "perfect order and arrangement"]; to order, to arrange, to adorn; well-ordered, regular).

Word Unit: costo-, cost-, costi- + (Latin: rib, ribs; side; coast).

Word Unit: cotylo-, cotyl- + (Greek: cup, any cup-shaped hollow; a seed leaf).

Word Unit: coxa-, coxo-, cox- (Latin: hip [anatomy], hip-bone, hip joint).

Word Unit: cozen- (Latin: cheat, a cheater; to defraud).

Word Unit: cranio-, crani-, cran- + (Greek > Medieval Latin [c.700-c.1500]: head, skull).

Word Unit: cras-, crastin- + (Latin: tomorrow, of tomorrow, belonging to tomorrow; delay, delaying, putting off until a later date).

Word Unit: -crat, -cracy, -cratic, -cratism, -cratically, -cracies + (Greek: a suffix; govern, rule; strength, power, might, authority).

Cross references of word families related directly, or indirectly, to: "master, lead, leading, ruler, ruling, govern": -agogic; agon-; arch-; dom-; gov-; magist-; poten-; regi-; tyran-.

Word Unit: creat- + (Latin: to make, to produce, to bring forth).

Word Unit: Creativity: Global Competition for Talent, Part 1 (The U.S. is in danger of losing its status as the world's greatest talent magnet).

Word Unit: Creativity: Thirst That Needs Quenching (getting a "fire in the head" in order to get the flame of creativity in motion).

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