Exfoliation [noun]

Where unworn by contact with the ground, the horn of the sole is shed by a process of exfoliation.

The term exfoliation is sometimes employed to indicate the separation or throwing off of a superficial sequestrum.

This second efflorescence faded on the twenty-fourth day, and on the twenty-seventh exfoliation began.

This is very easy to do in the weak limbs of strumous patients, and may cause exfoliation, and greatly delay cure.

An exfoliation of the rock itself you would call the houses that seem to grow there—so identical is the colour and character.

The general color of the trunk is orange-brown, the new bark, exposed by exfoliation, is yellow.

Increased activity of the mucous membrane, kidneys and skin, which becomes moist and oily, sometimes exfoliation of the epidermis.

Strange to say, this very exfoliation gave it something of a quite peculiarly desolate aspect.

An exfoliation of the rock itself, you would call the houses that seem to grow there, so identical is the colour and character.

But the age has fairly outgrown them, and they are falling away by a natural process of exfoliation.