desquamate
[des-kwuh-meyt]
- to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
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Origin of desquamate
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The packs, once a day, should be continued about a week after desquamation.
Meat and soup should only be given, when desquamation has fairly begun.
Convalescence was slow; sometimes there was desquamation of the skin.
Poisons: Their Effects and DetectionAlexander Wynter Blyth
This desquamation is sometimes in mass, in sheets peeling off like a pseudo-membrane.
Healthy children must be strictly seperated from the sick till the end of desquamation or scaling—a period of four to six weeks.
Valere AudeLouis Dechmann
desquamate
- (intr) (esp of the skin in certain diseases) to peel or come off in scales
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin dēsquāmāre to scale off, from de- + squāma a scale
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desquamation
(dĕs′kwə-mā′shən)- The shedding or peeling of the epidermis in scales.
- The shedding of the outer layer of a surface.
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desquamate
(dĕs′kwə-māt′)- To shed, peel, or come off in scales. Used of skin.
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