desquamation

English

Etymology

From Latin desquamare (“to scrape the scales off a fish”), from squāma (“scale”).

Noun

desquamation (countable and uncountable, plural desquamations)

  1. (medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
    After the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation.

References

  • desquamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
  • desquamation at OneLook Dictionary Search
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