desquamation

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
24
Words With Friends
27
Letters
12

Definition of desquamation

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)The shedding of the outer layers of the skin.
    “After the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation.”

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Etymology

From Latin desquamare (“to scrape the scales off a fish”), from squāma (“scale”).

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10-letter words

1 word

9-letter words

12 words

8-letter words

49 words

7-letter words

135 words

6-letter words

2 words

Hooks

1 extension · 1 back

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