Desquamation [des-kwuh-meyt]  

Desquamation

  [des-kwuh-meyt]
Desquamation is the shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation. The word comes from the Latin 'desquamare' , meaning "to scrape the scales off a fish".

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