Crossword-Solution: DESQUAMATION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Desquamation | n. | The separation or shedding of the cuticle or epidermis in the form of flakes or scales; exfoliation, as of bones. |
We have 2 clues for the answer “DESQUAMATION”
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| having one's skin fall off due to its being waterlogged | 1 answer |
| loss of bits of outer skin by peeling or shedding or coming off in scales | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EZACEM
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with DESQUAMATION (5)
The symptoms were preceded by restlessness, headache, and heat of the skin, and subsided gradually after the second or third day, desquamation continuing for nearly two months.
The untoward effects of opium and its derivatives are quite numerous Gaubius treated an old woman in whom, after three days, a single grain of opium produced a general desquamation of the epidermis; this peculiarity was not accidental, as it was verified on several other occasions.
There is a case of general and habitual desquamation of the skin in the Ephemerides of 1686; and Newell records a case which recovered under the use of Cheltenham water for several seasons.
Desquamation of the epidermis is the invariable feature of all cases, and it usually commences between the fourth and eighth days.
John shot a large Iguana of remarkably bright colours, which were perhaps owing to a late desquamation of the skin.