Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Covered with or formed of scales; scaly.
- adj. Resembling a scale or scales; thin and flat like a scale: the squamous cells of the cervix.
- adj. Of or relating to the thin, platelike part of the temporal bone.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- In zoöl, and anatomy: Covered with scales; scaly; squamate; squamose; squamiferous or squamigerous.
- Scale-like; squamoid; squamiform; specifically, of a bone, same as squamosal.
- In botany, same as squamose.
Wiktionary
Etymologies
- From Latin squāmōsus, from squāma ("scale"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin squāmōsus, from squāma, scale. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“It was the right leg, the right shin, which was revealed to be what she called a squamous cell carcinoma.”
“When the basal cells reach the spinous layer, they are referred to as squamous cells.”
“Blocking UVB helps reduce sunburn and protect against the more common (but far less deadly) forms of skin cancer called squamous and basal-cell carcinoma.”
“As for the skin cancer, as it says, An examination of his skin in February, which he repeats every few months, discovered on his leg a non-invasive form of skin cancer, called a squamous cell carcinoma, which was "destroyed" earlier this month using liquid nitrogen.”
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“Back in February of this year, he had what's known as squamous cell carcinoma.”
“He did have a cancerous lesion known as a squamous cell carcinoma removed in February.”
“The cancer was identified as a squamous cell carcinoma, a malignant tumor that is the second most common form of skin cancer.”
“Those are called squamous cells in the very outer layer.”
“In fact, only about 2,000 people actually die from this type or another type called squamous cell.”
“But roughly one-quarter of patients who take the medication develop a troublesome side effect: secondary skin cancers called squamous cell carcinomas.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘squamous’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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For the sound of it
delineate, ubiquarian, abaculus, gelid, stem-winder, alpenglow, ligature, corpuscle, corroboree, columnar, cuboidal, squamous and 10 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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slumry's Words
cattywampus, ingratiate, lackadaisical, exactitude, exfoliate, fulminate, circumnavigation, circuitous, debride, sidle, sequester, chicory and 1002 more...
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beatricks's Words
tremendous, naiad, thrush, samsara, thronging, nascent, broom, aristeia, streak, susurrant, reverberate, resistentialism and 352 more...
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Lovecraft's Ingeneous Idiolect
Some of HPL's most toothsome words.
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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C. S. Bird – Grandiloquent Dictionary
All the words from the Grandiloquent Dictionary.
946 of these 2700 words do not yield any results in six different dictionaries, hence many of them might be misspellings.
More in...abacinate, abcedarian, abderian, ablegate, abligurition, ablutophobia, abnormous, acarophobia, acathasia, accipitrine, accidia, accubitus and 2690 more...
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Squ-
All those fun words that begin with squ-. Be careful; this list is hard to read without some serious eye-crossage.
squid, squab, square, squeegee, squirt, squire, squib, squelch, squabble, squad, squally, squalled and 228 more...
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the catch-all
inveigle, frontier, invective, quizzical, merit, proficiency, eleemosynary, ham-handed, circumspect, epergne, cobble, industriousness and 201 more...
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learning
A list of words whose meanings I am learning, either because a) I don't know the meaning b) I know the meaning, but could stand to better appreciate certain inflections or secondary meanings or c) ...
louche, educe, loam, cob, sclerotic, palliate, axial, syndicalist, ecumenical, sally, fatuous, parvenu and 1381 more...
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favorite words
sawbones, grackle, celadon, brio, loam, trull, mint, saliva, serape, frisson, impasto, reek and 547 more...
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personal distaste
good grief, I'm getting irritable.
salvo, taboo, redoubtable, foment, intransigence, disingenuous, infarction, obviate, junta, aetiology, expedited, gerrymandering and 201 more...
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akmed13's Words
time, spaceship, quantum mechanics, time traveller, bezonkers, strakh, path integrals, gorbfest, amphigory, amber, bicycle, amphisbaena and 358 more...
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Papageno's Words, Pt. I
hobbledehoy, absquatulate, chthonic, prolix, ululate, internecine, verisimilitude, animadversion, concupiscence, vertiginous, cucullate, lucubrate and 1554 more...
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some of my favorites
some of my favorite words
tintinnabulation, lascivious, ontology, chthonic, eldritch, squamous, verity, specificity, euphony, cacophony, therianthrope, morbidity and 157 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for squamous.
sarra I'm totally puzzled as to how I actually knew that, now. Jun 18, 2009
dgstone Apparently this is pronounced "squay·mis" rather than "squam·is." Mar 15, 2008
yarb "...mud and protruberant close-packed stone in dense sharp ridges underfoot, squamous and scutellated like a reptile's back or the feet of a falcon."
- Niall Griffiths, Sheepshagger Jan 15, 2008