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Meanings of desquamate in English

Portuguese
descamar-se
Catalan
descamar-se
Spanish
descamar

Peel off in scales.

descamar-se
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Examples for "peel off"
Examples for "peel off"
1
It took only a second to peel off her jeans and sweater.
Chocolate chip cookie murder
2
I don't think you just peel off the network and sell it.
Reuters
3
Wash them clean, peel off the skin, and cut off the stalks.
Directions for Cookery, in its Various Branches
4
Remove from the oven, leave to cool slightly, peel off the skin.
The South African
5
I was sure Binny would peel off when I turned onto Franklin.
Bones Are Forever
Usage of desquamate in English
1
About the eighth day the rash begins to scale or desquamate.
The Eugenic Marriage, Volume 4 (of 4) / A Personal Guide to the ...
2
It's actually a hardened slime made up from various inorganic salts, desquamated cells and leucocytes.
Something in the water
3
They desquamated in great clots of translucent matter.
Perdido Street Station
4
Paint and plaster bubbled, desquamating grotesquely, as the massive houses became homes for more and more of New Crobuzon's swelling population.
Perdido Street Station
5
E) Congestion in the small intestinal wall and intestinal villi; desquamated epithelial cells from the intestinal villus (original magnification 100).
Reuters
6
Desquamated epithelial cells must be obtained and dissociated prior to examination using the comet assay, and such procedures may induce varying amounts of DNA damage.
Pubmed
Translations for desquamate
Portuguese
descamar-se
Desquamate through the time