1. These lesions may join together to form larger crusty plaques with desquamating edges. 2. Food debris, desquamated epithelial cells and bacteria often form a visible tongue coating. 3. In essence, atrophic candidiasis appears like pseudomembranous candidiasis without the superficial desquamating layer. 4. This cast is formed by inclusion or adhesion of desquamated epithelial cells of the tubule lining. 5. The term can refer to parts of the desquamated epithelium seen in biopsies from asthmatic patients. 6. Its name is derived from the former belief that these macrophages were pneumocytes that had desquamated . 7. Pseudomembranous candidiasis shows hyperplastic epithelium with a superficial parakeratotic desquamating ( i . e ., separating ) layer. 8. There it was : a " desquamating rash, " peeling red skin where summer swim trunks would pinch. 9. Smegma clitoridis is defined as the secretion of the apocrine glands of the clitoris, in combination with desquamating epithelial cells. 10. HPV infections have not been shown to be cytolytic; rather, viral particles are released as a result of degeneration of desquamating cells.
