1. Covered with, consisting of, or resembling scales or thin plates of the type that make up the covering of fish, reptiles, and some mammals.
2. A description of a layer of skin (epithelium) made up of small scale-shaped cells.
3. Referring to, or constituting, the thin anterior and superior portion of the temporal bone.
4. Relating to the squamosal in the vertebrate skull.

Marginal blepharitis with the formation of branny scales (desquamation, or shedding, of small husk-like scales).