Definition of "desquamating" []

• Present participle of desquamate. (verb)

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• "Rubbed over the surface of the body when a patient is desquamating or "peeling" after scarlet fever or measles, it keeps the skin smooth, soothes the itching, and prevents the scales from being carried about in the air and so infecting others."
• "Lichen scrofulosus is a chronic, inflammatory disease, characterized by millet-seed-sized, rounded or flat, reddish or yellowish, more or less grouped, desquamating papules."
• "If you buying erythromycin lotion on getting pregnant, infiltrate with your representation the tablets and adults of desquamating elavil during pregnancy."