decorticate

IPA: dɪkˈɔrtʌkeɪt

(transitive) To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something.
(transitive) To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc.

Examples of "decorticate" in Sentences

There are two parts to decorticate posturing.
He sat on the wooden side walk with his drunken palpitations, like a paralyzed cowboy at a decorticate ranch.
It assumes that patients are decorticate victims of circumstance - what an insult to their autonomy and intelligence.
Acne vulgaris is a decorticate model with a multifactorial etiology including androgen stimulation of sebum production.
Many consumers decorticate (dehull) the grain before grinding it into various particle sizes for use in different products.
The writer referred to says that, for the common varieties, some machinery, like the cotton seed huller, is necessary to decorticate them.
As progression occurs, the pain will cause decorticate posturing (flexion of the upper extremities with lower extremities becoming rigid and extended). g.
When we got there I was in a VFib and had seizures -- I was resuscitated, shocked multiple times, stabilized, and transferred to a larger center in a decorticate position.