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Excoriation   Listen
noun
Excoriation  n.  
1.
The act of excoriating or flaying, or state of being excoriated, or stripped of the skin; abrasion.
2.
Stripping of possession; spoliation. (Obs.) "A pitiful excoriation of the poorer sort."





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"Excoriation" Quotes from Famous Books



... physiological stimulus of the erupting tooth is capable of causing a painful irritation of the gum, so that the child is said to suffer from teething, accompanied, it may be, and the association is significant, by "teething convulsions." The irritation of the urine produces rawness and excoriation of the skin of the prepuce, contact with intestinal contents not in themselves very abnormal, an intractable dermatitis of the buttocks or a persistent diarrhoea and enteral catarrh. Improvement in the general health, the result of the cessation for ...
— The Nervous Child • Hector Charles Cameron
... very remarkable, so contradictory, so incongruous have I found the American that I hesitate. Shall I give you a satire; shall I devote myself to eulogy; shall I tear what they call the "whitewash" aside and expose them to the winds of excoriation; or shall I devote myself to an introspective, analytical divertissement? But I do not wish to educate you on the Americans, but to entertain, to make you laugh by the recital of comical truths; so without system I am going to tell you of these Americans as I found them, ...
— As A Chinaman Saw Us - Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home • Anonymous
... I have been practising surgery in this place for twenty years, and in a very poor way, for I had nothing to do, except a few cases of bleeding, of cupping, and occasionally some slight excoriation to dress or a sprained ankle to put to rights. I did not earn even the poorest living. But since last year a great change has taken place; I have made a good deal of money, I have laid it out advantageously, and it is to you, captain, to you (may God bless you!) ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


Words linked to "Excoriation" :   abrasion, scratch, denunciation, rope burn, excoriate, wound, graze


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