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Definition of Squames
1. squame [n] - See also: squame
Medical Definition of Squames
1. Flat, keratinised, dead cells shed from the outermost layer of a stratified squamous epithelium. This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology (11 Mar 2008)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Squames
Literary usage of Squames
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlines of Practical Histology by William Stirling (1890)
"Not unfrequently fungi may be seen adhering to the squames. (d. ... 62), which
stains deeply the nuclei of the squames and salivary corpuscles, ..."
2. The Canadian Entomologist by Entomological Society of Canada (1951- ), Entomological Society of Ontario (1901)
"... about 17 /* long, and distant about 39 /* from the bases of the median lobes :
lobes and squames formed just as in C. occultus and of the general type ..."
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