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squame

/skweɪm/ UK

Rhymes with -eɪm

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From Latin squāma. Doublet of squama.

noun squames

The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean.
A flake of dead skin tissue. EGF increased proliferation and squame formation and induced keratinization in cultured MA cells, an observation heretofore not reported in rat MA cells.
A squamous (scale-like) cell. Here the invading cell masses of the cancer consist of short thick squames, and the nearest approach to cell nest formation may be only a whorling of those squames in the centres of the cell masses.
A bony plate. Most of the right temporal bone is well-preserved, with the exception of much of the zygoma and the upper edge of the temporal squame (Plate 8).

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@misc{squame_2026,
  title = {squame},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/squame},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}