Meanings of excoriation in English

Body-focused repetitive behaviour disorders, including trichotillomania and excoriation disorder are also included.

Inversion of the nipples, their excoriation, or persistent sensitiveness may make it impossible.

A slight dorsal abrasion; also of the wrists; a severe excoriation of the ankle.

They have had their full share of censure and excoriation.

She frowns in sympathy, to see excoriation in the clefts.

The efficacy was especially apparent for pruritus and excoriation.

In two days more, the eschars were adherent, and there was no further appearance of excoriation.

After the first IRA ceasefire collapsed, Sinn Fein was subjected to a torrent of excoriation for months.

The exception is his excoriation of Kenneth Starr, the witchfinder-general who, Clinton writes, was determined to drive him from office.

The problem of access to research has been well covered in the Guardian - by analysis, by excoriation and by parable.

The name of the editor swung in terrorum in the imagination of all humble authorlings, and had become a synonym for merciless critical excoriation.

Her on-air excoriation earned her a call from a very not-sober Whitney herself, which Wendy recorded, and made the daily intro to her show.

This speech being no more comprehensible to me than his excoriation of an unknown individual, I could only stay silent and try to look appreciative.

A preacher wrote me the other day that he approved of every word of an "excoriation" that some religious editor had given me.

The juice of its stalk is applied to heal excoriations of the tongue.

Cleanliness, then, is the grand preventative of, and the best remedy for excoriations.