About the eighth day the rash begins to scale or desquamate.

It's actually a hardened slime made up from various inorganic salts, desquamated cells and leucocytes.

They desquamated in great clots of translucent matter.

Paint and plaster bubbled, desquamating grotesquely, as the massive houses became homes for more and more of New Crobuzon's swelling population.

E) Congestion in the small intestinal wall and intestinal villi; desquamated epithelial cells from the intestinal villus (original magnification 100).

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.