They eventually reach the top layer called "stratum corneum" and are sloughed off, or desquamated. This appearance refers to the mixture of sloughed mucosa, mucus, and blood. Their scales are cycloid, delicate and easily sloughed off; some are scaleless. More pet dander is sloughed off in older animals than in younger animals. The endometrium is sloughed off for the next three to six days. The skin is tough and leathery, and is shed (sloughed) as the animal grows. The animal often then eats the resulting sloughed skin. Cells are continuously sloughed off the outer surface of the root cap. The sloughed skin is then worked towards the head where it is quickly eaten. If implantation does not occur, it is sloughed off during menstruation. Mynas have been known to use tissue paper, tin foil and sloughed off snake-skin. "Pfiesteria" then consumes the tissue sloughed off its dead prey. If the lesion is opened (i.e., skin sloughed off), then the Nikolsky's sign is present/positive. If rejected, then it appears that Lincoln "sloughed off" colonization at some point in mid-1864. The guy's a good writer, Lorenzo Semple Jr. Badly directed, kind of sloughed off.