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An Illustrated Dictionary of Medicine, Biology and Allied Sciences · 1907 · p. 44

(ska/). Of fishes, any one of the small semi-opaque laminae of modified epidermis covering the surface of the body. 2. An exfoliated shell of bone. 3. The semi-opaque laminae of horny epidermis occurring upon the skin in various skin-diseases. See Squama. Ss., Hair, the imbricated platelike cells forming the cortical portion of a hair.