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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
desquamate .
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Examples
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The microscopical examination of mucus and desquamated membrane from a woman sixty-five years of age, disclosed that she was suffering from proctitis and colitis.
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There is no mechanical cleansing as by the sweat, the space around the hair is large and the accumulated secretion of the hair glands and the desquamated cells furnish a material in which bacteria may grow.
Disease and Its Causes William Thomas Councilman
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A considerable desquamation of epidermis takes place during fetal life, and this desquamated epidermis, mixed with sebaceous secretion, constitutes the vernix caseosa, with which the skin is smeared during the last three months of fetal life.
X. The Organs of the Senses and the Common Integument. 2. The Common Integument 1918
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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
Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. Alexander Miles 1893
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The surface of the skin is desquamated and frequently denuded of the hair.
Special Report on Diseases of the Horse Charles B. Michener 1877
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In closed comedones (whiteheads), a mass of desquamated cells plugs the follicular canal above the opening of the sebaceous gland.
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The presence of oral mucosa folds, interdental spaces, gums and other places where food, desquamated epithelium, and saliva are easily trapped creates favorable conditions for the reproduction of most microorganisms.
Pravda.Ru 2010
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This characteristic fluid represents aged, hemolyzed blood and desquamated endometrium.
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Microscopical examination of the desquamated intestinal membrane and mucus from a man forty years of age, revealed the following products: crystals, mostly complete; incomplete phosphates, very numerous; mucous shreds in abundance; fat globules and granules, numerous; anal epithelia; red blood globules, few; connective tissue, scanty; pus corpuscles, very few; margaric acid and detritus (substances resulting from the destruction or wearing away of the part); undigested material, mostly cellulose; leptothrix threads, micrococci; and the bacillus coli communis.
Ralpho commented on the word desquamated
This is a condition in which the skin sloughs off. The squamous cells, I guess.
After the blisters had he burn site was desquamated and showed considerable leakage of clear intercellular fluid.
During the progression a severe allergic episode which required inpatient care, desquamation of the skin was observed where there had previously been extensive wheals.
June 23, 2009