desquamation

English

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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.

Related terms

• squama

References

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