desquamation
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
The word comes from the Latin desquamare meaning "to scrape the scales off a fish."
[edit] Noun
desquamation (uncountable)
- (medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation.
[edit] References
- desquamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
