desquamate
[des-kwuh-meyt]
verb (used without object), des·qua·mat·ed, des·qua·mat·ing. Pathology.
to come off in scales, as the skin in certain diseases; peel off.
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
verb
Word Origin for desquamate
C18: from Latin dēsquāmāre to scale off, from de- + squāma a scale
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desquamation
[dĕs′kwə-mā′shən]
n.
desquamate
[dĕs′kwə-māt′]
v.
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