decorticate
/diːˈkɔːtɪkeɪt
/verb [with object]
1 technical Remove the bark, rind, or husk from.All three available specimens are mostly decorticated or incomplete....
- Analyses were performed on decorticated seeds or meats.
2Subject to surgical decortication.An area 13 mm wide by 25 mm long was gently decorticated....
- And when they put a decorticated cat in a cage with other cats, it was as though the healthy cats thought of it as dead.
adjective Biology & Psychology
(Of an animal) having had the cortex of the brain removed or separated.The terminal illness is characterised by deep coma and decerebrate or decorticate posturing....
- She was found to have a reduced level of consciousness, posturing consistent with a decorticate state, and unequal pupils.
- The patient's condition continued to deteriorate, with decorticate posturing to painful stimuli.
Origin
Early 17th century: from Latin decorticat- 'stripped of its bark', from the verb decorticare, from de- (expressing removal) + cortex, cortic- 'bark'.