Sloughing

Sloughing may refer to the act of shedding or casting off dead tissue, such as cells of the endometrium, shed during menstruation. It may also refer to the process where necrotic surface epithelial cells are discarded from the small intestinal mucosa following various infections which may occur within both monogastrics or ruminant.^[1] Sloughing also occurs in root growth, where cells from the root cap are shed to the soil where they are biologically processed by microorganisms.

See also

• Desquamation, pathologic or non-pathologic skin shedding.
• Ecdysis, Shedding of the skin or exoskeleton, mainly in Arthropoda
• Moulting, biological shedding in many species

References

1. ^ Dyce KM, Sack WO, Wensing CJG (2010). Textbook of Veterinary Anatomy (Fourth ed.).