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• s  rough to the touch; covered with scales or scurf
• s  having the body covered or partially covered with thin horny plates, as some fish and reptiles

• In time the skin grows scaly, inelastic, wrinkled, becomes predisposed to cancer.
• Then they start fiddling with it: turning on old pseudogenes; knocking out the genes for feathers and putting back in the genes for scaly skin; tweaking the genes for the skull so .
• A scaly tail, long as a city block and wide as a boulevard.

• lepidote
• leprose
• scabrous
• scurfy
• scaley
• scaled

News & Articles

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• Seen At 11: New Treatments Go Below The Surface To Stop Skin Cancer Before It Starts
  Actinic keratoses look like red, scaly patches and are usually found on sun-exposed skin like backs of hands, balding scalps, ears, and the face. The keratoses can usually be frozen off with liquid nitrogen, but they could signal a more serious problem.
  June 11, 2013 - CBS New York

Quotes

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• Cardinal Thomas Wolsey in National Post
  Try always,the Cardinal says, "to learn what people wear under their clothes, for it's not just their skin. Turn the king inside out, and you will find his scaly ancestors:"
• Eddie McGuire in Fox Sports
  There comes a time in your life when you have to get rid of scaly mates, let me tell you,McGuire said.
• Lewis Morris in Huffington Post (blog)
  Appearing on Faithful Friends with Wanda, Electra, Tony and crew was the most fun I've ever had on a film set. My favorite animals are slimy or scaly and it was great sharing this passion with kids and parents contemplating buying a pet lizard,... Nigel Marven http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nigel_Marven&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNFopm0qCki_fTQeBdjWimH5k1vFnw MSNBC http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28790503/&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNHTei15__JnVP17SFL_NPcHQ7esVw Jan 22, 2009 86298 115382 scam In fact, the Chief Counsel to the US Department of Health and Human Services Inspector General has said that a Medicare fraud scam is far safer than dealing in crack or dealing in stolen cars--and it's far more lucrative."