ecdysis

• Hikari claims that the food offers the necessary mineral profile for proper ecdysis (shedding) and contains copper, which is necessary for blood regeneration. —  Practical Fishkeeping news (RSS)
• At the end of each developmental stage, insects perform the ecdysis sequence, an innate behavior necessary for shedding the old cuticle. —  CiteULike: Everyone's library
• A skin of some dimension was cast in the 16th century, and another towards the end of the 18th, while, within the last fifty years, the extraordinary growth of every department of physical science has spread among us mental food of so nutritious and stimulating a character that a new ecdysis seems imminent. —  Lectures and Essays
• a new ecdysis seems imminent. —  On the Relations of Man to the Lower Animals
• The last of these attributes to disappear is that of personality, and when this final ecdysis has been performed, the eject which remains is so unlike its original subject, that, as we shall immediately find, it is extremely difficult to trace any points of resemblance between them. —  Mind and Motion and Monism

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms