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decorticate

[ dee-kawr-ti-keyt ]

verb (used with object)

decorticated, decorticating.
  1. to remove the bark, husk, or outer covering from.
  2. Surgery. to remove the cortex from (an organ or structure).


decorticate

/ 诲颈藧藞办蓴藧迟瑟藢办别瑟迟 /

verb

  1. tr to remove the bark or some other outer layer from
  2. surgery to remove the cortex of (an organ or part)
鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • 诲别藞肠辞谤迟颈藢肠补迟辞谤, noun
  • 诲别藢肠辞谤迟颈藞肠补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms

  • 诲别路肠辞谤顎僼颈路肠补顎卼辞谤 noun
  • 耻苍顎卍别路肠辞谤顎僼颈路肠补迟顎卐诲 adjective
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of decorticate1

1605鈥15; < Latin 诲脓肠辞谤迟颈肠腻迟耻蝉 (past participle of 诲脓肠辞谤迟颈肠腻谤别 to peel), equivalent to 诲脓- de- + 肠辞谤迟颈肠腻迟耻蝉 having bark, shell; corticate
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins

Origin of decorticate1

C17: from Latin 诲脓肠辞谤迟颈肠腻谤别, from de- + -肠辞谤迟颈肠腻谤别, from cortex bark
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Example Sentences

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His hands were contorted in a strange way 鈥 in what neurologists describe as 鈥渄ecorticate posturing,鈥 an indication of brain injury.

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Consciousness in congenitally decorticate children: developmental vegetative state as self-fulfilling prophecy.

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Many copra-making plants in India and Ceylon are now supplied with decorticating, breaking, and evaporating machinery.

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The outlay for fencing against wandering flocks of goats and for decorticating machinery and other expenses would deter the ordinary cultivator from planting, and this could only be profitably undertaken if ample capital were forthcoming.

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This removal of the shell makes a great difference in the oilcake, as the decorticated cake is more nutritious than the undecorticated.

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