desquamation
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It takes the average skin cell 28 days to cycle from creation to desquamation.
From Slate • Jan. 12, 2022
The dead skin cells there should shed in a process called desquamation, but it is slowed by a number of factors: hormone fluctuations, sun exposure, vitamin deficiencies and aging.
From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018
On the ninth day desquamation began, and at a later stage the nails of the fingers and toes separated.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
Scarlet fever usually gives rise to a slight inflammation of the mouth followed by desquamation, but more rarely it is accompanied by a most severe oedematous stomatitis with glossitis and tonsillitis.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various
Thus in a recent case in my practice the rash was still distinct at the close of the second week, though the temperature had fallen from 105° to 102° and some desquamation had appeared.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
