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Exfoliation   /ɛksfˌoʊliˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Exfoliation

noun
1.
The peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin.
2.
A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.  Synonyms: scale, scurf.






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"Exfoliation" Quotes from Famous Books



... in consultation over the nature of their patient's malady, and the proper mode of administering to his relief. Unable to convince one another, they wax so warm in argument that they speedily proceed from words to blows. "I say," shouts one (beneath the feet of the other three), "I say it is an exfoliation of the glands which has fallen on the membranous coils of the intestines, and must be thrown off by an emetic." "I say," says another, raising at the same time his cane to protect his head, "I say it is a pleurisie in the thigh, and must be sweated away." "You are a blockhead!" ...
— English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. - How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. • Graham Everitt



Words linked to "Exfoliation" :   organic phenomenon, scale, fleck, dandruff, dander, scrap, chip, exfoliate, scurf, bit, flake



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