exuviation

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I preserved this mutilated object with uncommon care, watching it almost incessantly day and night: expecting another exuviation which might be attended with interesting consequences, I felt much anxiety for its survivance.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

These little glandular bodies, with the membrane formed by them, are cast off at each exuviation, and new glands formed on the crest of the fr�num underneath.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles

During every successive exuviation in this embryo state, they assume more and more of their perfect and established form.

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

This last shell of 12th September subsisted until 29th March, being 197 days, when it was thrown off during another exuviation.'

From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 433 Volume 17, New Series, April 17, 1852 by Chambers, Robert

After the exuviation of the old spines, the new spines have their inverted basal portions drawn out from within the segments, and turned outside in, so as to assume their proper positions.

From A Monograph on the Sub-class Cirripedia With Figures of all the Species. by Darwin, Charles