squamous adjective. ['skweɪmǝs] LME.
[Latin squamosus, formed as SQUAMA: see -OUS.]
1. Covered with or having scales, scaly; (of a substance) composed of scales; (of armour) laminated. LME.
■ R. Brooke There swimmeth One..of fishy form and mind, Squamous, omnipotent and kind.
b. Anatomy. Designating the thin scaly part of the temporal bone (the squamosal). LME.

2. Anatomy. Of a suture: formed by thin overlapping parts resembling scales. LME.

3. (Of the skin) characterized by the development of scales; (of a disease) accompanied by skin of this kind. LME.

4. Containing scalelike particles. rare. LME.

5. Anatomy & Medicine. Designating a layer of epithelium that contains or consists of very thin flattened cells; designating such a cell. M19.
Independent Squamous cell carcinoma arises from the flat, squamous cells of the epidermis.

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