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decerebrate
[ verb dee-ser-uh-breyt; noun dee-ser-uh-breyt, -brit ]
verb (used with object)
decerebrated, decerebrating.
- Surgery. to remove the cerebrum.
noun
- a decerebrated animal.
- a person who, because of brain injury, exhibits behavior characteristic of a decerebrated animal.
decerebrate
verb
- tr to remove the brain or a large section of the brain or to cut the spinal cord at the level of the brain stem of (a person or animal)
noun
- a decerebrated individual
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Derived Forms
- 诲别藢肠别谤别藞产谤补迟颈辞苍, noun
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Other 亚洲网紅露点 Forms
- 诲别路肠别谤顎卐路产谤补顎僼颈辞苍 noun
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of decerebrate1
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亚洲网紅露点 History and Origins
Origin of decerebrate1
C19: from de- + cerebro- + -ate 1
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Example Sentences
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Mori, S. Integration of posture and locomotion in acute decerebrate cats and in awake, freely moving cats.
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Before she relaxed in the dusky pallor of death, she had what looked like 鈥渄ecerebrate posturing鈥 鈥 an arching of the neck that occurs as the brain is squeezed through the base of the skull.
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I mention not the levels at all, nor do I speak of "decerebrate metaphysics."
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