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desquamate, v.|ˈdɛskwəmeɪt|
[f. L. dēsquāmāt-, ppl. stem of dēsquāmāre (trans.) to remove the scales from, to scale, f. de- I. 2 + squāma scale (of a fish, reptile, etc.).]
†1. trans. To take the scales off, clear from scales, peelings, or loose cuticle; to scale, peel.
1740Dyche & Pardon Desquamate, to scrape off the fins from fish; and in Surgery, to scale off the corrupt or shattered part of bones.
2. intr. To come off in the form of scales; to scale off, exfoliate, ‘peel’.
1828Combe Const. Man iii. (1835) 99 As anatomists call it, desquamating; by which they mean, that the cuticle..comes off in squamæ or scales. 1878T. Bryant Pract. Surg. I. 53 The cuticle always desquamates.
Hence ˈdesquamated ppl. a., scaled off; freed from scales or cuticle, peeled.
1727Bailey vol. II, Desquamated, scaled, having the Scales taken off. 1845–6G. E. Day tr. Simon's Anim. Chem. II. 107 Piutti removed all the desquamated cuticle. 1884Bower & Scott De Bary's Phaner. 556 They traverse and support each desquamated zone surrounding the periphery of the stem. |