| 单词 | decerebrate rigidity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdecerebrate rigidity Deprived of the cerebrum; having the cerebrum removed or the brain-stem cut; also, resulting from this, as decerebrate rigidity, a state in which the limbs are extended and certain skeletal muscles rigidly contracted. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [adjective] > operations on the brain decerebrate1897 stereotaxic1908 hypophysectomized1910 pinealectomized1912 stereotactic1954 1897 C. S. Sherrington in Proc. Royal Soc. 61 244 I have found the ‘long intra-spinal reflexes’, like sub-cerebral rigidity (‘decerebrate tonus’,) locally abolished..by total severance of the sensory spinal roots belonging to their own region of terminal discharge. 1898 C. S. Sherrington in Jrnl. Physiol. 22 319 In a communication to the Royal Society in 1896 I described under the name decerebrate rigidity a condition of long-maintained muscular contraction supervening on removal of the cerebral hemispheres. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 744/1 The decerebrate monkey exhibits ‘cataleptoid’ reflexes. Father Kircher's experimentum mirabile with the fowl and the chalk line succeeds best with the decerebrate hen. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley Animal Biol. vi. 139 A ‘decerebrate’ animal, i.e. one in which the cerebral hemispheres have been removed, though unconscious, can to some extent adjust its standing posture. 1950 Sci. News 15 19 An anaesthetised, or decerebrate animal. 1969 ‘M. Innes’ Family Affair xvii. 187 Oswyn's virtually decerebrate, of course. < as lemmas |
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