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Definition of Decortications
1. decortication [n] - See also: decortication
Lexicographical Neighbors of Decortications
Literary usage of Decortications
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"... as opacities of the membranes, adhesions with decortications, shrinkage of
the convolutions, and in one or two instances, actual softening. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1906)
"... as opacities of the membranes, adhesions with decortications, shrinkage of
the convolutions, and in one or two instances, actual softening. ..."
3. The Analyst (1887)
"They come there, either by sifting out the finer starchy portions, or by the
addition of the decortications of bleached pepper or otherwise. ..."
4. Biennial Report by Kansas State Horticultural Society (1902)
"The poet happily came to the rescue of the lawmaker when he translated this sound
principle into his own more sound language, thus : " decortications of the ..."
5. Gleanings for the Curious from the Harvest-fields of Literature: A Melange by Charles Carroll Bombaugh (1890)
"decortications of the golden grain Arc set to allure the aged fowl, in vain.
Teach not a parent's mother to extract The embryo juices of an egg by suction ..."
6. An Encyclopædia of Agriculture: Comprising the Theory and Practice of the by John Claudius Loudon (1831)
"... or fruit is destroyed, it is not again regenerated, nor is the wound healed
up, except by means of a scar. Such is the case also with all decortications ..."
7. Progressive Medicine by Hobart Amory Hare (1919)
"... Operations or decortications much better in the spring than in the winter.
Statistics on methods of treatment which do not take into consideration the ..."
8. The Sylva Americana: Or, A Description of the Forest Trees Indigenous to the by Daniel Jay Browne (1832)
"Such is the case also with all decortications that penetrate deeper than the
epidermis, particularly if the" wound is not protected from the action of the ..."
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