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v. To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.

v. To remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of (an organ or structure).

v. To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something

v. To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc

v. To divest of the bark, husk, or exterior coating; to husk; to peel; to hull.

To remove the bark from; in general, to deprive of the cortex, in any sense of that word; strip off the exterior coat of.

Destitute of a cortex or cortical layer: used specifically in lichenology.

v. remove the cortex of (an organ)

v. remove the outer layer of

"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."

decorticated    decorticating   

remove    take    withdraw    take away    strip   

decorticated    decorticating    decortication   

husk    peel    hull    excorticate    debark    disbark    skin    busk    pill    rind