The animal often then eats the resulting sloughed skin.
The avenues were guarded by broken-nosed angels yearning heavenward; one showed a leprous patch where her left eye and cheek had sloughed away.
This creates the classically described red currant jelly stool, which is a mixture of sloughed mucosa, blood, and mucus.
Found in a patient's sputum, they are ciliated columnar cells sloughed from the bronchial mucosa of a patient with asthma.
If left embedded the mouthparts cause a foreign body reaction and are usually eventually sloughed like a splinter.
He is certainly not treating the matter in a cavalier way; he is not saying that such duties can be sloughed off by anyone.
Nor can they be sloughed off on to the state or the rest of civil society.
It is unacceptable that that body of opinion should have been sloughed off.
