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What does desquamation mean?

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Noun
  1. (medicine) The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
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Scarlet fever provides the classic example of an erythematous rash with subsequent desquamation.
If the total radiation dose to the skin is 40 Gy or greater, the erythema phase is followed by a moist desquamation phase.
Fifty subjects suffering from scalp seborrhea and furfuraceous desquamation took part in this clinical trial.
Regulates the desquamation process and promotes the barrier function of the skin.
Local tissue reactions were confined to the treatment site and included erythema, swelling, desquamation, erosions, and eschar in most patients.
She also had slight hyperpigmentation and desquamation of her anterior trunk that did not involve the bikini areas.

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