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Exfoliation   /ɛksfˌoʊliˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Exfoliation

noun
1.
The peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin.
2.
A thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin.  Synonyms: scale, scurf.






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"Exfoliation" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the intestinal tract. In the most frequent form of eczema the skin becomes red and then there appear tiny vesicles (water blisters) which soon rupture and "weep." This fluid which oozes from these tiny, ruptured vesicles, in connection with the perspiration and exfoliation of old skin, forms heavy crusts upon the face which are ...
— The Mother and Her Child • William S. Sadler

... the skill to express them in forms of radiant beauty. But all these secret feelings and desires are in the hearts of other men, who have not the boldness to tell them nor the ability to embody them exquisitely. In the life of man, as in nature generally, there is a perpetual process of exfoliation, as Edward Carpenter calls it, whereby a latent but striving desire is revealed, and the man of genius is the stimulus and the incarnation of this exfoliating movement. That is why every great poet and artist when once his message ...
— The Task of Social Hygiene • Havelock Ellis

... days more happily. He was struck in the arm by the bullet which the zealot Mitchell had intended for Archbishop Sharp; and the shattered bone never healed; "for, though he lived some years after," says Burnet, "they were forced to lay open the wound every year, for an exfoliation;" and his life was eventually shortened by his sufferings. All seemed comfortable enough, and quite quiet enough, in the bishop's country-house to-day. There were two cows quietly chewing the cud in what apparently had been the dignitary's sitting-room, and patiently ...
— The Cruise of the Betsey • Hugh Miller



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