desquamatory
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
27
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
4
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
adj
Example Sentences
- "And this shall be done with a scaling or Desquamatory Trepan, (as they term it) with which you may easily take up as much of the bone, as you shall think expedient: And I have here given you the figure thereof"
- "It is only when the sediment is very abudant, pointing to an exaggerated desquamatory condition, that our attention is called to the condition."
- "Very rarely seen are separate desquamatory distropically changed endothelial cells an in their place small defects are formed."
- "Ultimately, the alteration in stratum corneum lipid organization will affect the levels of free water available to both hydrate the desquamatory enzymes and to participate in their catalytic reactions ."
- "For our purposes, it is sufficient to note that dysregulation of desquamatory protease activity in the SC is often involved in conditions of compromised skin barrier."
Etymology
By surface analysis, desquamate + -ory.