EXFO'LIATE, verb intransitive [Latin exfolio; ex and folium, a leaf.]
In surgery and mineralogy, to separate and come off in scales, as pieces of carious bone; to scale off, as the lamins of a mineral.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.