EXFOLIATION
\ɛksfˈə͡ʊlɪˈe͡ɪʃən], \ɛksfˈəʊlɪˈeɪʃən], \ɛ_k_s_f_ˈəʊ_l_ɪ__ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of EXFOLIATION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
By Oddity Software
By Noah Webster.
By William R. Warner
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
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By this is meant the separation of the dead portions of a bone, tendon, aponeurosis, or cartilage, under the form of lamella3 or small scales. Exfoliation is accomplished by the instinctive action of the parts, and its object is to detach the dead portion from dose subjacent, which are still alive. For this purpose the latter throw out fleshy granulations, and a more or less abundant suppuration occurs, which tends to separate the exfoliated part, - now become an extraneous body. The ancients distinguished exfoliation into sensible and insensible, according as the dead portions of bone were detached in fragments of greater or less size, or in very thin pieces, and in an almost insensible manner. When the dead part embraces all or almost all the substance of a bone, it takes the name Sequestrum.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
