| Desquamation | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Skin peeling |
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| Specialty | Dermatology |
Desquamation, or peeling skin, is the shedding of dead cells from the outermost layer of skin.[1]
The term is from Latin desquamare 'to scrape the scales off a fish'.
- ^ Miller, Claire; Crampin, Edmund; Osborne, James M. (August 2022). "Multiscale modelling of desquamation in the interfollicular epidermis". PLOS Computational Biology. 18 (8): e1010368. arXiv:2107.08575. Bibcode:2022PLSCB..18E0368M. doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.1010368. ISSN 1553-7358. PMC 9462764. PMID 36037236.