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Squame vs Squama - What's the difference?

squame | squama |

In medicine|lang=en terms the difference between squame and squama

is that squame is (medicine) a flake of dead skin tissue while squama is (medicine) a scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.

As nouns the difference between squame and squama

is that squame is (obsolete) a scale (of metal, or on the eyes etc) while squama is (medicine) a scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.

squame

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A scale (of metal, or on the eyes etc.).
    • Iron squames . — Chaucer.
  • (zoology) The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
  • (medicine) A flake of dead skin tissue.
  • * 2011 , Terence Allen and Graham Cowling, The Cell: A Very Short Introduction , Oxford 2011, p. 80:
    • Squames begin life as normal cells in the lower layers of the epidermis but, as they travel towards the surface, they progressively lose all recognizable contents, becoming plates of mainly keratin protein, based on a progressive deposition of protein on the intermediate filaments of teh cytoskeleton.
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    squama

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (medicine) A scale cast off from the skin; a thin dry shred of epithelium.
    • (Webster 1913) ----