Desquamation

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Symptom/Sign: Desquamation
Classifications and external resources
ICD-10 R23.4
ICD-9

Desquamation is the shedding of the outer layers of the skin. For example, once the rash of measles fades, there is desquamation. The word comes from the Latin 'desquamare' , meaning "to scrape the scales off a fish".