desquamatory

English

Etymology

By surface analysis, desquamate +‎ -ory.

Adjective

desquamatory (not comparable)

Pertaining to exfoliation
1. (surgery) Relating to the removal of the laminae of exfoliated bones.
  - 1649, Ambroise Paré, The Workes of that Famous Chirurgion Ambrose Parey, page 269:
    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
2. Related to the shedding of endothelial cells.
  - 1895, Robert Newton Tooker, The Diseases of Children and Their Homeopathic Treatment, page 432:
    It is only when the sediment is very abudant, pointing to an exaggerated desquamatory condition, that our attention is called to the condition.
  - 1988, Folia Medica - Volume 30, page 22:
    Very rarely seen are separate desquamatory distropically changed endothelial cells an in their place small defects are formed.
3. Pertaining to the shedding or peeling off of the outermost layer of skin cells.
  - 2002, James J. Leyden, Anthony V. Rawlings, Skin Moisturization, page 366:
    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 .
  - 2015, Raja Sivamani, Jared R. Jagdeo, Peter Elsner, Cosmeceuticals and Active Cosmetics:
    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.

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