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Definition of Desiccates
1. desiccate [v] - See also: desiccate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Desiccates
Literary usage of Desiccates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"The discharge spreading upon the inflamed surface desiccates into a yellowish
and brownish lamel- lated crust, which is constantly augmented by fresh ..."
2. American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology edited by [Anonymus AC02837004] (1871)
"These flattened vesicles, when mature, consist of thin epidermal covering and
pns, which rapidly desiccates, and as a result the whole forms the peculiar ..."
3. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... desiccates with a rapidity which upsets all the former calculations of geologists.
But the building of the bridges over the Irtysh and the Ob, ..."
4. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"In old age the body desiccates, specific gravity increases as does low-level
connective tissue, and thus death or a corpse of lived-out organs is evolved. ..."
5. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... inflammatory type, and reaches its maximum coincidentally with the height of
maturation of the vaccine pustule, fading away as the latter desiccates. ..."
6. On Diseases of the Skin by Erasmus Wilson (1857)
"The discharge spreading upon the inflamed surface desiccates into a yellowish
and brownish lamel- lated crust, which is constantly augmented by fresh ..."
7. American Journal of Syphilography and Dermatology edited by [Anonymus AC02837004] (1871)
"These flattened vesicles, when mature, consist of thin epidermal covering and
pns, which rapidly desiccates, and as a result the whole forms the peculiar ..."
8. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1895)
"... desiccates with a rapidity which upsets all the former calculations of geologists.
But the building of the bridges over the Irtysh and the Ob, ..."
9. Adolescence: Its Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology by Granville Stanley Hall (1904)
"In old age the body desiccates, specific gravity increases as does low-level
connective tissue, and thus death or a corpse of lived-out organs is evolved. ..."
10. Clinical Hematology: A Practical Guide to the Examination of the Blood with by John C. DaCosta (1901)
"... inflammatory type, and reaches its maximum coincidentally with the height of
maturation of the vaccine pustule, fading away as the latter desiccates. ..."
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