Which term describes flattened keratinocytes in the stratum granulosum?

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In the epidermis, the stratum granulosum contains keratinocytes that have become flattened and filled with keratohyalin granules, which gives this layer a granular appearance. These cells are described as granular cells. Keratin is the protein produced by these cells, not the cell type itself. Corneocytes are the dead, flattened keratinocytes found in the outermost layer, the stratum corneum, not in the stratum granulosum. Water passage control isn’t a term used to describe epidermal cell types.