desquamation

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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 Stelwagon, Henry Weightman

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 MacKenzie, Compton

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 West, Charles

Nov. 6th, temperature 103.5°; eruption still present, but skin of abdomen and back desquamating; has otorrhoea on both sides; fauces deeply hyper�mic, but no pseudo-membrane visible upon them.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various