desquamation

noun

1. The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.

   countable, uncountable

   After the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation.

Where it comes from

From Latin desquamare (“to scrape the scales off a fish”), from squāma (“scale”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry desquamation (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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