desquamation

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It takes the average skin cell 28 days to cycle from creation to desquamation.

From Slate • Jan. 12, 2022

The dead skin cells there should shed in a process called desquamation, but it is slowed by a number of factors: hormone fluctuations, sun exposure, vitamin deficiencies and aging.

From New York Times • Jun. 25, 2018

Scarlet fever usually gives rise to a slight inflammation of the mouth followed by desquamation, but more rarely it is accompanied by a most severe oedematous stomatitis with glossitis and tonsillitis.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" by Various

Itching of the skin is marked in some cases, and a fine desquamation is observed after the rash, but by no means invariably.

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

As to the contagion of mumps, the author thinks, it can only occur where there is desquamation of the integuments; and remarks on the analogy of this circumstance, with what occurs in scarlatina.

From North American Medical and Surgical Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, July, 1826 by Bache, Franklin