动 exuviate，slough off，shed，peel；名 （蛇、蝉等脱下的皮） exuviae，slough ；

[例句] 所有爬行动物生长过程中都要蜕皮。 All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.

[例句] 正在蜕皮的蛇 a snake sloughing its skin

change qualitatively，transform，[物] decay，disintegration，metamorphosis；

[例句] 蝌蚪蜕变了，登上陆地。 The tadpoles metamorphose and emerge onto land.

[例句] 毛毛虫最终将蜕变成一只蝴蝶。 The caterpillar will eventually metamorphose into a butterfly.

cast off a skin，exuviate，molt，moult，ecdysis ；

[例句] 所有爬行动物生长过程中都要蜕皮。 All reptiles have to slough their skin to grow.

[例句] 正在蜕皮的蛇 a snake sloughing its skin

slough off，exuviate，degenerate，ecdysis ；

[例句] 这一现象表明知识分子或一些敏感的人们忽然和蜕化的因素结合起来. The phenomenon represented a sudden coalescence of intellectual or sensitive people with the lumpen elements.

[例句] 再讲一讲蜕化腐朽思想. I should like to speak about the tendency towards degeneration and corruption.

decidua ；

[例句] 同时取正常与流产大鼠的蜕膜作TUNEL染色,观察凋亡情况. The decidua of both normal pregnant rats and abortion were also scratched for TUNEL.

[例句] 蜕膜化与子宫壁变厚与新血管生长有关. Decidualisation involves a thickening of the uterine wall and the growth of new vessels.

exuvial，sloughy ；

[例句] 正在蜕皮的蛇 a snake sloughing its skin

[例句] 蝉是要蜕皮的. A cicada throws its slough.

[医] slough ；

[例句] 它们坚硬的外壳, 叫做外骨骼, 不会随着小龙虾的成长而生长,而会周期性蜕落. Their hard outer shell, called the exoskeleton, does not grow with crawfish and is shed periodically.

amnios ；

metamict ；

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