decorticate
IPA: dɪkˈɔrtʌkeɪt
verb
- (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.
adjective
- Having had the cortex removed
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Examples of "decorticate" in Sentences
- 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.
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