desquamate
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The febrile symptoms, which abate during the process of maturation, are apt to return during desiccation; and when the skin begins to desquamate, they then constitute what is called secondary fever.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
The effects may last a week, and the skin may desquamate.
From Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology by W. G. Aitchison (William George Aitchison ) Robertson
The margins of the pustules, before of a distinct red, now assume a bluish-red or purplish colour, and the skin begins to desquamate.
From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Franklin Bache
Nov. 5th, temperature 104.5°; dusky-red color of the eruption; skin beginning to desquamate in places; urine normal; a discharge from nostrils.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
The crypts are distended with yellowish-white plugs, composed of inflammatory exudate, leucocytes, and desquamated epithelium, and these may project from the openings, giving the tonsil a spotted appearance.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
In croup there may be a swollen mucous membrane, with a slight superficial mucous exudation, or a more abundant exudation of desquamated epithelium and mucus, as well as a fibrinous false membrane.
From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various
She considered herself now well, but still her skin was flabby, especially on the hands where the epidermis often desquamated, and the nails remained hard, brittle and without lustre.
From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Edward Pollock Anshutz
Such a dermoid usually takes the form of a globular cyst, the wall of which consists of skin, and the contents of turbid fluid containing desquamated epithelium, fat droplets, cholestrol crystals, and detached hairs.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
The exterior of the nose, especially at the tip, became intensely red and toward the close of the attack the cuticle desquamated.
From Psychotherapy by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
In the sitting-room Michael looked idly through the books, and glanced with dissatisfaction at the desquamating backs of the magazines.
From Sinister Street, vol. 2 by Compton MacKenzie
Any check to the action of the skin while it is peeling or desquamating, as it is termed, is especially liable to be followed by these accidents.
From The Mother's Manual of Children's Diseases by Charles West
Lichen scrofulosus is a chronic, inflammatory disease, characterized by millet-seed-sized, rounded or flat, reddish or yellowish, more or less grouped, desquamating papules.
From Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine by Henry Weightman Stelwagon
