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English
Etymology
From Middle French dénudation, from Latin denudatio.
Pronunciation
Noun
denudation (countable and uncountable, plural denudations)
- The act of stripping off covering, or removing the surface; a making bare.
- (medicine) The loss of the cellular covering of (the interior or exterior surface of an organ, etc.).
Severe radiation poisoning results in the total denudation of the gastrointestinal tract.
- (geology) The laying bare of rocks by the washing away of the overlying earth, etc.; or the excavation and removal of them by the action of running water.
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