DECORTICATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does decortication mean? 

• DECORTICATION (noun)
  The noun DECORTICATION has 1 sense:

1. removal of the outer covering of an organ or part

  Familiarity information: DECORTICATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DECORTICATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Removal of the outer covering of an organ or part

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("decortication" is a kind of...):

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)

Derivation:

decorticate (remove the cortex of (an organ))

decorticate (remove the outer layer of)