squamen.
/ˈskweɪm/ΘΚΠ
the world > space > shape > condition of being broad in relation to thickness > [noun] > thin plate or layer > scale
squamec1386
shale1398
scalec1450
paillole1481
squam1661
c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 206 What schulde I..besy me to telle yow the names, As orpiment, brent bones, yren squames, That into poudre grounden ben ful smal?
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 189 Furfurea ben a maner of squamis, i. schellis þat comeþ of brennyng þat is in þe skyn.
a1470 J. Hardyng Chron. lxiii In whose bloodde bathed he should haue been, His leprous swames [v.r. squamys] to haue washed of clene.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) ii. 298 The swame ys fallyn from my eyes twayne.
1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 12 The flouers bind, represse excrescencies, and cleare the eyes of the Squamme.
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the world > animals > fish > unspecified types > [noun]
whalec950
tumbrelc1300
sprout1340
squame1393
codmop1466
whitefish1482
lineshark?a1500
salen1508
glaucus1509
bretcock1522
warcodling1525
razor1530
bassinatc1540
goldeney1542
smy1552
maiden1555
grail1587
whiting1587
needle1589
pintle-fish1591
goldfish1598
puffin fish1598
quap1598
stork1600
black-tail1601
ellops1601
fork-fish1601
sea-grape1601
sea-lizard1601
sea-raven1601
barne1602
plosher1602
whale-mouse1607
bowman1610
catfish1620
hog1620
kettle-fish1630
sharpa1636
carda1641
housewifea1641
roucotea1641
ox-fisha1642
sea-serpent1646
croaker1651
alderling1655
butkin1655
shamefish1655
yard1655
sea-dart1664
sea-pelican1664
Negro1666
sea-parrot1666
sea-blewling1668
sea-stickling1668
skull-fish1668
whale's guide1668
sennet1671
barracuda1678
skate-bread1681
tuck-fish1681
swallowtail1683
piaba1686
pit-fish1686
sand-creeper1686
horned hog1702
soldier1704
sea-crowa1717
bran1720
grunter1726
calcops1727
bennet1731
bonefish1734
Negro fish1735
isinglass-fish1740
orb1740
gollin1747
smelt1776
night-walker1777
water monarch1785
hardhead1792
macaw-fish1792
yellowback1796
sea-raven1797
blueback1812
stumpnose1831
flat1847
butterfish1849
croppie1856
gubbahawn1857
silt1863
silt-snapper1863
mullet-head1866
sailor1883
hogback1893
skipper1898
stocker1904
the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > phylum Mollusca > [noun] > miscellaneous types > other types of mollusc
squame1393
shell-worm1591
spout-fish1594
pentadactyl1601
sea cucumber1601
pirot1611
worm1621
nun-fish1661
scarlet mussel1672
sea-navel1678
redcap?1711
strawberry cockle1713
sea-finger1748
sea-nail1748
sea-acorn1755
coneya1757
compass1776
bubble shell1818
glass-shell1851
golden comb1857
cryptodont1893
nuculoid1960
1393 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 215 Item pro pikerell et creuez, j duc. lxviij s; item pro squames, xl s; item pro kokkel, xxij s.
1393 Earl Derby's Exp. (Camden) 216 Item pro squamez, xl s.
3. Zoology. = squama n. 1.
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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > covering or skin > [noun] > hard or protective covering > scale
shellc893
scalec1330
shard1390
squama1706
squame1877
1877 T. H. Huxley Man. Anat. Invertebrated Animals vi. 339 In these genera the scaphocerite, or squame, usually attached to the base of the antenna, is absent.
1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 169 The second joint..bears an exopodite in the shape of a scale or ‘squame’.
4. Medicine.
a. A small flake of dead tissue shed from the surface of the skin in some disorders.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > skin disorders > [noun] > scurfy or scabby state or disease > scale or scab
scabc1250
scale14..
scurf1540
incrustation1656
slurf1674
scruff1710
squama1876
squame1911
1911 M. Morris Dis. Skin (ed. 5) i. 16 The scale, or squame, is a dry and usually laminated exfoliation of the epidermis.
1953 S. Beckett Watt 170 A..constipated man, covered with squames.
1975 Sci. Amer. Nov. 70/3 Finally they fuse into the flakes called squames, which are eventually shed from the surface.
b. A squamous cell (see squamous adj. 8).
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the world > life > biology > substance > cell > types of cells > [noun] > other types of cells
reticular cell1832
torula1833
reserve cell1842
subcell1844
parenchyma cell1857
pedicel cell1858
nettle cell1870
heterocyst1872
prickle cell1872
angioblast1875
palisade cell1875
sextant1875
spindle cell1876
neuroblast1878
body cell1879
plasma cell1882
reticulum cell1882
stem cell1885
Langhans1886
basal cell1889
pole cell1890
myelocyte1891
statocyst1892
mast cell1893
thrombocyte1893
iridocyte1894
precursor1895
nurse cell1896
amacrine1900
statocyte1900
mononuclear1903
oat cell1903
myeloblast1904
trochoblast1904
adipocyte1906
polynuclear1906
fibrocyte1911
akaryote1920
Rouget cell1922
Sternberg–Reed1922
amphicyte1925
monoblast1925
pericyte1925
promyelocyte1925
pituicyte1930
agamete1932
sympathogonia1934
athrocyte1938
progenitor1938
Reed–Sternberg cell1939
submarginal1941
delta cell1942
mastocyte1947
squame1949
podocyte1954
transformed cell1956
transformant1957
spheroplast1958
pinealocyte1961
immunocyte1963
lactotroph1966
mammotroph1966
minicell1967
proheterocyst1970
myofibroblast1971
cybrid1974
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > [noun] > abnormal or morbid tissue > cell characteristic of
myelocyte1891
mast cell1893
myeloblast1904
Paget cell1910
Sternberg–Reed1922
Reed–Sternberg cell1939
squame1949
1949 in Blakiston's New Gould Med. Dict.
1954 Jrnl. Obstetr. & Gynecol. 61 156/2 Smears of patients with erratic or inactive curves consist mainly of intermediate squames and have a high proportion of basal cells.
1973 Gray's Anat. (ed. 35) 27/2 Squamous (pavement) epithelium. This is composed of flattened, interlocking, polygonal cells (squames).
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