squame /skweɪm/ noun4 •The scale, or exopodite, of an antenna of a crustacean. •A bony plate.Most of the right temporal bone is well-preserved, with the exception of much of the zygoma and the upper edge of the temporal squame (Plate 8). — 1991 •A flake of dead skin tissue.EGF increased proliferation and squame formation and induced keratinization in cultured MA cells, an observation heretofore not reported in rat MA cells. — 1984 •A squamous (scale-like) cell.Here the invading cell masses of the cancer consist of short thick squames, and the nearest approach to cell nest formation may be only a whorling of those squames in the centres of the cell masses. — 1928 formssquames
