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Desquamation

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The shedding of the outer layers of the skin. countable, uncountable

    "After the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation."

  2. 2
    loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales wordnet

Etymology

From Latin desquamare (“to scrape the scales off a fish”), from squāma (“scale”).

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