desquamation noun. 
[dɛskwǝ'meɪʃ(ǝ)n] M16.[formed as DESQUAMATE: see -ATION.]1.  A cast-off scale of skin etc.; something which has desquamated. 
rare. 
M16.2.  The action or fact of desquamating; 
spec. the shedding of the outer layer of the skin. 
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