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To shed (skin).
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Snakes slough their skin periodically.
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To slide off (like a layer of skin).
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A week after he was burned, a layer of skin on his arm sloughed off.
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To discard.
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East sloughed a heart.
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(Western US) To commit truancy, be absent from school without permission. (compare ditch)
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"Dude, Kaydn and Jarom are totally sloughing today!"
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Something sloughed off.
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The act of casting off the skin or shell; ecdysis.
Sometimes the long life of the serpent and its habit of changing the skin suggested ideas of immortality and resurrection, and it is noteworthy that one Indian snake-festival occurs after or at the sloughing, when the sacred being is thus supposed to become purified.'
Hypodermic injection of strychnine, in some cases as much as one to two grains (but not into a vein!), has in some cases had good results; but injection of ammonia, instead of doing any good, has disastrous sloughing results.
The result is dulness of sight, a stagnation of the vital circulations, and a general deliquium and sloughing off of all the intellectual faculties.
The local pain becomes intense with the wound sloughing tissue often down to the bone.
Larval Therapy This can be a useful treatment, especially for sloughing open wounds, which are infected with MRSA.
For it is only the conquering Spirit sloughing away its human habitation for a better Life.
By the way does anyone know if sloughing of cells is restricted to the Hydrozoa or do the other 2 classes also do this?
This is accomplished through sloughing off dead skin cells through exfoliation and encouraging the natural production of collagen.
Perhaps the sloughing more than any other feature stimulated primitive speculation; cf.
If left, they usually suppurate and open outwards by sloughing of the skin, but they may subside spontaneously, or remain hard and indurated.
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