DECORTICATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decorticate mean? 

• DECORTICATE (verb)
  The verb DECORTICATE has 2 senses:

1. remove the outer layer of

2. remove the cortex of (an organ)

  Familiarity information: DECORTICATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECORTICATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they decorticate    ... he / she / it decorticates   
Past simple: decorticated   
Past participle: decorticated   
-ing form: decorticating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the outer layer of

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Context example:

decorticate a tree branch

Hypernyms (to "decorticate" is one way to...):

strip (remove the surface from)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Something ----s something

Derivation:

decortication (removal of the outer covering of an organ or part)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove the cortex of (an organ)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "decorticate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

decortication (removal of the outer covering of an organ or part)