decapsulatev.
/diːˈkapsjuːleɪt/ Surgery.
transitive. To remove the capsule of.
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1907 Practitioner Dec. 778 The renal artery of a cat, whose corresponding kidney had been decapsulated and fixed two months previously.
1962 H. L. Kern et al. in A. Pirie Lens Metabolism 386 The lenses were either decapsulated or mashed in the culture tubes.
Derivatives
decapsuˈlation n. the removal of a capsule.
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1907 Practitioner Oct. 471 The decapsulation of the normal healthy kidney.
1963 J. P. Merrill in Strauss & Welt Dis. Kidney xiii. 457/1 Decapsulation of the kidney is of little value after acute renal failure has been present for several days.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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