decortication

de·cor·ti·cate

D0080600 (dē-kôr′tĭ-kāt′)tr.v. de·cor·ti·cat·ed, de·cor·ti·cat·ing, de·cor·ti·cates 1. To remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from; peel.2. To remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of (an organ or structure).

[Latin dēcorticāre, dēcorticāt- : dē-, de- + cortex, cortic-, bark, rind; see sker- in Indo-European roots.]

de·cor′ti·ca′tion n.de·cor′ti·ca′tor n.

decortication

the process of stripping off or removing the cortex or outer layer.See also: Processes, Trees

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Noun

decortication - removal of the outer covering of an organ or partsurgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"

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Decortication

removal of the cortex of the cerebral hemispheres. Total decortication (performed in the second half of the 19th century by the German physiologist F. Goltz on a dog) is used in experimental physiology for the purpose of studying the influences of the cortex on other structures of the central nervous system and organs.

With total decortication, higher animals show severe disturbances of behavioral reactions and of conditioned-reflex activity. The animals sleep most of the time, awaking only when there are intense stimuli associated with the simplest reflex activity (taking food, defecation, urination); when they are in the waking state, chaotic motor activity is observed. Partial decortication, the removal (extirpation) of certain parts of the cortex of the cerebral hemispheres (lobectomy, gyrectomy, topectomy), is used in experiments to study such matters as the functions of the cortex of the cerebral hemispheres and the cortical links of the analysers and in clinical practice as a neurosurgical method of treating certain organic affections and diseases associated with disturbance of cortical function. The symptom complex characteristic of partial decortication may arise as a result of trauma to any part of the cortex, in disturbances of cerebral blood circulation, and in brain tumors.

In man a phenomenon analogous to disturbances occurring in decortication may be observed in congenital anencephalia; such newborns are, as a rule, not capable of living.

IU. A. FADEEV

decortication

[de-kor″tĭ-ka´shun] 1. removal of the outer covering from a plant, seed, or root.2. removal of portions of the cortex of a structure or organ, as of the brain, kidney, or lung.3. a surgical procedure to remove a residual clot or new scar tissue following a hemothorax or untreated empyema.

de·cor·ti·ca·tion

(dē'kōr-ti-kā'shŭn), 1. Removal of the cortex, or external layer, beneath the capsule from any organ or structure. 2. An operation for removal of the residual clot and/or newly organized scar tissue that forms after a hemothorax or neglected empyema. [L. decortico, pp. -atus, to deprive of bark, fr. de, from, + cortex, rind, bark]

de·cor·ti·ca·tion

(dē-kōr'ti-kā'shŭn) 1. Removal of the cortex, or external layer, beneath the capsule from any organ or structure. 2. An operation to remove a clot and scar tissue that formed after a hemothorax or neglected empyema. [L. decortico, pp. -atus, to deprive of bark, fr. de, from, + cortex, rind, bark]

decortication

Removal of the outer covering (CORTEX) of an organ.

Decortication

Surgical removal of the fibrous peel that covers the lungs in third-stage empyema.Mentioned in: Empyema

de·cor·ti·ca·tion

(dē-kōr'ti-kā'shŭn) Removal of the cortex, or external layer, beneath the capsule from any organ or structure. [L. decortico, pp. -atus, to deprive of bark, fr. de, from, + cortex, rind, bark]

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noun removal of the outer covering of an organ or part

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