Denudation
the act of making naked or bare; a stripping or denuding.
In geology, the laying bare by removal of superficial matter so as to disclose the subjacent strata; so also is the removal by water of any formation or part of a formation. Thus we hear of denuded rocks or of a strata removed by denudation. condition of a part deprived of its natu- In medicine, the word is applied to the ral coverings, whether by wound, ganplied to the bones when deprived of their grene, or abscess. It is particularly apperiosteum, and to the teeth when they lose their enamel or dental substance. formed by the denudation of the strata A valley of denudation is a valley in which it is hollowed out.