decorticate
transitive verb
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Medical Definition of decorticate
(Entry 1 of 2)
: to remove all or part of the cortex from (as the brain)
decorticate
adjective
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Medical Definition of decorticate (Entry 2 of 2)
: lacking a cortex and especially the cerebral cortex experiments with decorticate cats
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