des·qua·mate
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Audio Help [des-kwuh-meyt] Pronunciation Key –verb (used without object), -mat·ed, -mat·ing. Pathology.
| to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off. |
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desquamation
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intr.v. des·qua·mat·ed, des·qua·mat·ing, des·qua·mates To shed, peel, or come off in scales. Used of skin. [Latin dēsquāmāre, dēsquāmāt- : dē-, de- + squāma, scale.] des'qua·ma'tion n. |
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| desquamation | |
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| loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales |
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Desquamation
Des`qua*ma"tion\, n. [Cf. F. desquamation.] (Med.) The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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