desquamation
- noun
- /ˌdɛskwəˈmeɪʃən/
- Specialized
:
descamación
- The skin underwent desquamation after the sunburn, resulting in unsightly flakes peeling off.
Examples
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Brookes and Graham opined that when there is obstruction of the canal, desquamation of the epithelium continues, and the collection of impacted squamous debris may ultimately modify the canal lining and lead to cholesteatoma formation.
Academic text (2009) -
In the ear with AOE, we see desquamation of the skin into the ear canal and an inflammatory infiltrate (figure 2).
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Fingerprinting was impossible because highly decomposed bodies, which almost invariably showed extensive post-mortem skin desquamation or peeling.
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Figure 2. Photographs show desquamation (A) and inflammatory infiltrate (B) in an ear with AOE. (Photographs courtesy of Michael Hawke, MD.)
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Severe eczema can lead to desquamation, where patches of skin shed and cause discomfort.
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During the healing process, the desquamation of the outer skin layer is a natural occurrence.
Synonyms
How Flaky
Surface Forms
Morphology
desquamation = desquamate (opaque) = de + squam + ation
Formation from the verb 'desquamate' to the noun with -ation is a regular and predictable nominalization.
Etymology
The word desquamation comes from the Latin parts de- 'off' and squama 'scale'. Picture tiny 'scales' or flakes coming off the skin, which is exactly what desquamation means: the outer skin peeling away in flakes.