decorticationn.
/dɪˈkɔːtɪˈkeɪʃən/ The action of decorticating; spec. in Surgery (see quots.).
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc.
pilling?c1225
decortication1623
casting1846
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [noun] > stripping or uncovering so as to leave bare > of skin, bark, husk, etc. > of bark
rindinga1425
barking1545
disbarking1601
excortication1664
debarking1742
decortication1816
excoriation1830
1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Decortication, peeling.
1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Q3 Apothecaries do ill that extract Oil out of Almonds before decortication.
1816 P. Keith Syst. Physiol. Bot. II. 482 The decortication of a tree, or the stripping it of its bark.
1900 W. A. N. Dorland Amer. Illustr. Med. Dict. 193/1 Decortication,..removal of portions of the cortical substance of the brain.
1909 Practitioner Nov. 661 Where the surgeon finds during the course of a nephrectomy that the decortication of the sac is very difficult.
1936 A. L. Punch & F. A. Knott Mod. Treatm. Dis. Respiratory Syst. vi. 97 Decortication. The justification for this operation is based on the assumption that the lung cannot..obliterate the empyema cavity because it is bound down by..thickened and fibrous visceral pleura. The operation of decortication consists in freeing the lung of this inelastic coat.
1962 Lancet 5 May 946/1 This procedure was followed by a tension pneumothorax which eventually necessitated thoracotomy and decortication to produce good re-expansion of the lung.
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