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Desquamation
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This article is about the medical condition. For the meaning in material sciences, see spalling. For onion skin weathering of rocks, see Onion-skin weathering.
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'.