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Desquamation
The shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation. The word comes from the Latin “desquamare” meaning “to scrape the scales off a fish.”
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The shedding of the cuticle in scales or of the outer layer of any surface.
- branny d. SYN: defurfuration.

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n.
the process in which the outer layer of the epidermis of the skin is removed by scaling.

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de·squa·ma·tion (des″kwə-maґshən) [de- + squama] the shedding (exfoliation) of epithelial elements, chiefly of the skin, in scales or sheets. desquamative, desquamatory adj

Medical dictionary. 2011.