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Shedding

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Shedding may refer to:

  • Shedding or moulting of body parts
  • Desquamation, pathologic or non-pathologic skin shedding
  • Peeling of the skin
  • Shedding game, a family of card games where the objective is to get rid of one's hand first
  • Natural hair loss in cats and dogs
  • Viral shedding which is the release of virus progeny following successful reproduction during a host-cell infection
  • Vaccine shedding an anti-vaccination myth about the release of infective virus following vaccination
  • Woodshedding, practicing a difficult passage repeatedly until it can be performed flawlessly.

See also

  • Sheading a subdivision of the Isle of Man