Definition of Decerebrate

1. Verb. Remove the cerebrum from (a human body).

Category relationships: Surgery
Generic synonyms: Get Rid Of, Remove

Definition of Decerebrate

1. Adjective. (biology) Having the cerebrum removed ¹

2. Verb. To remove the cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Decerebrate

1. [v -BRATED, -BRATING, -BRATES]

Medical Definition of Decerebrate

1. 1. To cause decerebration. 2. Denoting an animal so prepared, or a patient whose brain has suffered an injury which renders him in his neurologic behaviour comparable to a decerebrate animal. (05 Mar 2000)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decerebrate

deception
deceptional
deceptions
deceptious
deceptive
deceptive advertising
deceptive cadence
deceptive cadences
deceptively
deceptively misdescriptive
deceptiveness
deceptivenesses
deceptivities
deceptivity
deceptory
decerebrate (current term)
decerebrate reflex
decerebrate rigidity
decerebrate state
decerebrated
decerebrates
decerebrating
decerebration
decerebrations
decerebrise
decern
decerned
decerning
decerniture
decernitures

Literary usage of Decerebrate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Neurological Bulletin by Frederick Tilney, Columbia University, Dept. of Neurology (1921)
"(3) Cases of tonic fits without persisting decerebrate attitude. ... (3) Cases of decerebrate attitude in the course of conscious involuntary movement, ..."

2. The Integrative Action of the Nervous System by Charles Scott Sherrington (1906)
"The " chloroform cry " in decerebrate animals. Mimesis of pleasure as compared with mimesis of pain. The bodily resonance of the emotions. ..."

3. A Manual of Physiology: With Practical Exercises by George Neil Stewart (1918)
"decerebrate Cat Preparation (Miller and Sherrington).—This preparation, which must be made by the demonstrator, differs from the spinal preparation ..."

4. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1898)
"The reactions examined for the phenomenon with positive result include those initiated by excitation of (1) the skin and skin nerves (with " decerebrate ..."

5. The Unconscious: The Fundamentals of Human Personality, Normal and Abnormal by Morton Prince (1914)
"And yet in the decerebrate animal without consciousness, as we must believe ... These, however, are the simplest examples of decerebrate behavior. ..."

6. The Conduction of the Nervous Impulse by Keith Lucas (1917)
"... but the phenomena of decerebrate rigidity give some grounds for believing that an entirely different mechanism is at work.1 It is true that ..."

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