🧖 Shedding skin 🩹 A skin flake

exfoliation

6.1

A thin piece of dead skin that falls off your body

noun
/ɛksˌfoʊliˈeɪʃən/

: escamas

The dermatologist explained that regular exfoliation can help improve skin texture and appearance.

Examples

Peels can be used occasionally to play a major role in the exfoliation of dead or damaged skin.

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The brush creates this micro exfoliation on your skin that really shows all the dead skin and brings up the flakiness.
After a long day at the beach, I noticed an exfoliation of dead skin on my shoulders.
Using a gentle scrub can promote the exfoliation of flaky skin cells from the surface.

Synonyms

scale

vsexfoliation

28 3.5

A small thin piece of skin that can come off

is a thin flexible skin flake rather than a rigid plate

scurf

vsexfoliation

9.9

Small white flakes of dead skin on the scalp

is a single thin flake shed from the body's surface

How Big

sheet

140 1.4

scale

28 3.5

exfoliation

6.1

to flake

12 2.6

speck

66 1.3

Surface Forms

exfoliation singular

exfoliations plural

Morphology

exfoliation = exfoliate (semi-transparent) = ex + foli + ate + ion

The noun is regularly formed from the verb 'exfoliate' with '-ion', a common nominalization.

Etymology

Exfoliation comes from the Latin parts ex- 'out' and folium 'leaf'. Think of a small piece of dead skin as a tiny 'leaf' that has come away from the surface, which is why 'exfoliation' can mean one of those thin flakes.