desquamation

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

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.

• branny desquamation

• squama

• “desquamation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “desquamation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

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• IPA^(key): /dɛs.kwa.ma.sjɔ̃/

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desquamation f (plural desquamations)

1. desquamation

• “desquamation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.