ecdysis

IPA: ɪkdˈaɪsɪs

The stripping off of an outer layer of skin by snakes and certain other animals; typically in accommodation to growth or wear-and-tear; as distinct from the term "moulting", not in reference to the shedding of hair or feathers.
The shedding of an exoskeleton, as in insects and crustaceans.

Examples of "ecdysis" in Sentences

The cysts undergo ecdysis a number of times.
Hence I propose to merge this article into Ecdysis.
Ecdysis occurs at least once during the active season.
Her power continuously grows each day after her first ecdysis.
Death is caused by incomplete ecdysis and cuticle malformation.
CCAP is responsible for activation of the ecdysis motor program.
If the counter ever reaches 999, the second ecdysis would occur.
This process of molting is called ecdysis and gives the group its name.
Growth is accomplished by periodic shedding of the exoskeleton ecdysis .
A less common word for the process is ecdysis (ek'dih-sis; "get out" G).
The exocuticle and epicuticle resist digestion and are hence shed at ecdysis.
Ecdysis is necessary because the exoskeleton is rigid and cannot grow like skin.
It's from "ecdysis," a word for the process of shedding one's own skin, snake-style.
During pre-adult life, the exoskeleton is therefore renewed a number of times by the process of moulting or ecdysis.
It might be a good idea to relate strip-teasing in some way to the...zoological phenomenon of molting,...which is ecdysis.
Spiders grow by shedding their old exoskeleton and replacing it with a larger, less constraining hide, a process known as ecdysis.
It inhibits ecdysis and ultimately, apolysis, the first stage in the moulting process in which separation of the old cuticle from the underlying epidermal cells takes place.