desquamation noun.
[dɛskwǝ'meɪʃ(ǝ)n] M16.[formed as DESQUAMATE: see -ATION.]1. A cast-off scale of skin etc.; something which has desquamated.
rare.
M16.2. The action or fact of desquamating;
spec. the shedding of the outer layer of the skin.
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