Definition of "decorticate" []

• To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel. (verb-transitive)
• To remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of (an organ or structure). (verb-transitive)

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• "When we got there I was in a VFib and had seizures -- I was resuscitated, shocked multiple times, stabilized, and transferred to a larger center in a decorticate position."
• "He sat on the wooden side walk with his drunken palpitations, like a paralyzed cowboy at a decorticate ranch."
• "It assumes that patients are decorticate victims of circumstance - what an insult to their autonomy and intelligence."