Exfoliation is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for EXFOLIATION in dictionary:

VERB:
• cause (a surface) to shed material in scales or layers
• wash or rub (a part of the body) with a granular substance to remove dead skin cells
• shed (material) in scales or layers
• (of a material) be shed from a surface in scales or layers
NOUN:
• the process by which concentric scales, plates, or shells of rock are stripped or spall from the bare surface of a large rock mass
• The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
• the peeling off in flakes or scales of bark or dead skin
• a thin flake of dead epidermis shed from the surface of the skin
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cast off in scales, laminae, or splinters

Words related to EXFOLIATION

exfoliate19

Words that contain EXFOLIATION

exfoliations22

How to use EXFOLIATION in a sentence

• It is asserted by the Zuni that in four days after the birth of a child the first skin is removed by exfoliation and is supplanted by a new one.
• Burns of the first degree are characterized by severe pain, redness of the skin, a certain amount of swelling that soon passes, and later exfoliation of the skin.
• In my own case there was a rapid exfoliation, as we call it, of the skin, a loss and renewal of the outer layer of the cuticle.

Similar words containing FOLIA without suffix tion and without prefix ex

folia8 foliar9 foliage11 foliate10 foliaged13 foliages12 foliated12 foliates11 trifolia11 bifoliate14 defoliant13 defoliate13 exfoliant19 exfoliate19 foliating13 foliation12 foliature12 defoliants14 defoliated15 defoliates14 defoliator14 exfoliants20 exfoliated21 exfoliates20 exfoliator20 foliaceous15 foliations13 foliatures13 perfoliate15 trifoliate13 unifoliate13 defoliating16 defoliation15 defoliators15 exfoliating22 exfoliative24 exfoliators21 trifoliated15 curvifoliate20 defoliations16 exfoliations22 interfoliate15 multifoliate17 parvifoliate20 perfoliation17 prefoliation17 undefoliated17 interfoliated17 interfoliates16 perfoliations18 prefoliations18 quadrifoliate26 angustifoliate18 aquifoliaceous28 interfoliating18 quinquefoliate35 caprifoliaceous24

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