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Flake off   /fleɪk ɔf/   Listen
Flake off

verb
1.
Come off in flakes or thin small pieces.  Synonyms: flake, peel, peel off.






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"Flake off" Quotes from Famous Books



... the larvae may enter a blood capillary, drift along in the blood stream and finally come to rest in a large blood-vessel that supplies a certain portion of the intestines with blood. Here the parasite develops. The wall of the vessel becomes irritated and inflamed, pieces of fibrin flake off and drift along the blood stream until finally a vessel too small for the floating particle to pass through is reached and the vessel becomes plugged. The loop of intestine supplied by it receives no blood. A temporary paralysis of the loop ...
— Common Diseases of Farm Animals • R. A. Craig, D. V. M.



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