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
With some of them, however, the throat only became affected and no desquamation took place, whilst the character of the complaint with the rest was rather mild.
From Hydriatic treatment of Scarlet Fever in its Different Forms by Munde, Charles
The amount of desquamation corresponds with the intensity and duration of the efflorescence, or rather of the dermatitis which produces the efflorescence.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
As the disease advances the portions of skin first attacked become less inflamed, and exhibit a yellowish appearance, which is followed by slight desquamation of the cuticle.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 "Equation" to "Ethics" by Various
