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- verb Present participle of
desquamate .
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Examples
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Rubbed over the surface of the body when a patient is desquamating or "peeling" after scarlet fever or measles, it keeps the skin smooth, soothes the itching, and prevents the scales from being carried about in the air and so infecting others.
The Home Medical Library, Volume II (of VI) Kenelm Winslow
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Lichen scrofulosus is a chronic, inflammatory disease, characterized by millet-seed-sized, rounded or flat, reddish or yellowish, more or less grouped, desquamating papules.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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If you buying erythromycin lotion on getting pregnant, infiltrate with your representation the tablets and adults of desquamating elavil during pregnancy.
Wii-volution 2010
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Do therefore tell a unwanted erythromycin allergies without desquamating your doctor.
Wii-volution 2010
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(cutis anserina), the miliary papular syphiloderm in its desquamating stage, and lichen scrofulosus.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Henry Weightman Stelwagon 1886
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