Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.
- transitive verb To remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of (an organ or structure).
from The Century Dictionary.
- Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer: used specifically in lichenology.
- To remove the bark from; in general, to deprive of the cortex, in any sense of that word; strip off the exterior coat of.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
peel orremove thebark ,husk , orouter layer from something - verb transitive To
surgically remove thesurface layer,membrane , orfibrous cover of anorgan etc
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the cortex of (an organ)
- verb remove the outer layer of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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.
Barbara Ficarra: Ladies, Love Your Body, Protect Your Heart Barbara Ficarra 2011
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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.
Barbara Ficarra: Ladies, Love Your Body, Protect Your Heart Barbara Ficarra 2011
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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.
Barbara Ficarra: Ladies, Love Your Body, Protect Your Heart Barbara Ficarra 2011
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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.
Barbara Ficarra: Ladies, Love Your Body, Protect Your Heart Barbara Ficarra 2011
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He sat on the wooden side walk with his drunken palpitations, like a paralyzed cowboy at a decorticate ranch.
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It assumes that patients are decorticate victims of circumstance - what an insult to their autonomy and intelligence.
P4P in Real Life: What Would You Do? 1 Dinosaur 2007
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Many consumers decorticate (dehull) the grain before grinding it into various particle sizes for use in different products.
4. Pearl Millet 1996
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The writer referred to says that, for the common varieties, some machinery, like the cotton seed huller, is necessary to decorticate them.
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Acne vulgaris is a decorticate model with a multifactorial etiology including androgen stimulation of sebum production.
Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local EarlyBird 2010
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As progression occurs, the pain will cause decorticate posturing (flexion of the upper extremities with lower extremities becoming rigid and extended). g.
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