Desquamation: alternatives and connections

The union of two or more separate bones to from a single bone; the close union of bones or other structures in various animals.

Roundish pearl-colored specks or flakes in the mouth, on the lips, etc., terminating in white sloughs. They are commonly characteristi…

The Cynara scolymus, a plant somewhat resembling a thistle, with a dilated, imbricated, and prickly involucre. The head (to which the…

To scatter like snow; to cover thick, as with snow flakes.

The shedding or spilling of blood; slaughter; the act of shedding human blood, or taking life, as in war, riot, or murder.

One who sets broken or dislocated bones; -- commonly applied to one, not a regular surgeon, who makes an occupation of setting bones.

Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.

Filled with white flakes; mothery; -- said vinegar when containing mother.

The separation of ripened leaves from a branch or stem; the falling or shedding of the leaves.

Nascent epidermis, or external cuticle of plants in a forming condition.

Like epidermis; pertaining to the epidermis.

To split into scales, especially to become converted into scales at the result of heat or decomposition.

the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin; "exfoliation is increased by sunburn"

Having the power of causing exfoliation.

Forced separation from one's native country; expulsion from one's home by the civil authority; banishment; sometimes, voluntary separa…

To curdle when poured into another liquid, and float about in little flakes or "feathers;" as, the cream feathers

To form into flakes.

Consisting of flakes or of small, loose masses; lying, or cleaving off, in flakes or layers; flakelike.