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from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to desquamation; desquamative.
- noun Pl. desquamatories (-riz). In surgery, a kind of trepan formerly used for removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Surg.) An instrument formerly used in removing the laminæ of exfoliated bones.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective surgery Relating to the removal of the
laminae of exfoliated bones.
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