Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- transitive v. To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.
- transitive v. To remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of (an organ or structure).
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- v. To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something
- v. To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- transitive v. To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To remove the bark from; in general, to deprive of the cortex, in any sense of that word; strip off the exterior coat of.
- Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer: used specifically in lichenology.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- v. remove the cortex of (an organ)
- v. remove the outer layer of
Etymologies
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.
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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.
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Many consumers decorticate (dehull) the grain before grinding it into various particle sizes for use in different products.
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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.
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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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I will interact with members by answering questions as well as introducing TBB Beta modules which we will evaluate and decorticate throughout the whole process by receiving your inputs.
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The mung bean decorticating machine can decorticate mung beans, then removing the bran from the decorticated mung beans, and grade the decorticated beans into two grades: broken decorticated mungbean and whole decorticated mung bean.
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In a sense, it’s the perfect storm: bigots, a population of disinterested, seemingly decorticate workers clinging to their jobs with a hope and a prayer for those outsourcing said jobs, greedy economic ideologues, Protestant, Catholic, Jewish and Muslim nutjobs,and the reins of government of the most powerful nation on the planet held by a group of people so severely pathological it’s amazing they’re able to function.
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