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exfoliation

[eks-foh-lee-ey-shuhn] / ɛksˌfoʊ liˈeɪ ʃən /
NOUN
molting
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“You don’t need to exfoliate. Exfoliation happens by itself, it doesn’t need to be helped along.”

From National Geographic • Nov. 28, 2023

Exfoliation happens primarily in the outer layer of your skin, the stratum corneum.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018

Exfoliation is a process of those layers falling away to reveal the next layer in the cliff face.

From National Geographic • Jul. 31, 2015

Figure 5.4 Exfoliation of slate at a road cut in the Columbia Mountains west of Golden, B.C.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The Exfoliation is made sometimes sooner, and sometimes later; but the Callus usually covers the opening of the Skull within the space of forty or fifty Days, if no ill Accident happens.

From The Compleat Surgeon or, the whole Art of Surgery explain'd in a most familiar Method. by Le Clerc, Charles Gabriel



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