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decerebrate en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət/ (UK)
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Etymology

From de- + cerebrate.

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Having the cerebrum removed.
   • Take for instance the startling example of the experiments of Wever and Bray, when tones were led into the external meatus of the ear of a decerebrate cat and then greatly amplified electrical currents were tapped from the eighth cranial or auditory nerve. 1937, Christian A. Ruckmick, “Psychology tomorrow”, in Psychological Review, volume 44, page 148:
   • In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state. 1908, C. S. Sherrington, “On plastic tonus and proprioceptive reflexes”, in Quarterly Journal of Experimental Physiology, page 117:
   • All brain tissue rostral to the diencephalon was removed, making the preparation a decerebrate one. 1997 November 7, Gonzalo Viana Di Prisco et al., “Role of Sensory-Evoked NMDA Plateau Potentials in the Initiation of Locomotion”, in Science, volume 278, number 5340, →DOI, pages 1122–1125:

decerebrate en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From de- + cerebrate.

Meanings

1. To remove the cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function.
   • This conceptual experiment can be physically demonstrated by decerebrating or spinalizing an animal and using a neuromuscular blockade or deafferentiation to remove rhythmic sensory feedback. 2014, Shih-Chii Liu, Event-Based Neuromorphic Systems, page 94:
   • […] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed. 1876, “Is craniotomy, cephalotripsy, or cranioclasm, preferable to the Cæsarean section in pelves ranging from one and a half to two and a half inches?”, in Transactions of the New York Academy of Medicine, page 206:
   • The method employed was to decerebrate a frog, to wait till the shock of this operation had so far passed off, to ligate the iliac artery and vein of one limb […] 1891 October 14, “The New Hypnotics”, in The Dental & Surgical Microcosm, volume 1, number 2:

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Translations (5)

pl odkorować (to remove the cerebrum) · fr décérébrer (to remove the cerebrum) · fi poistaa isotaivot (to remove the cerebrum) · it decerebrare (to remove the cerebrum) · pl odkorowywać (to remove the cerebrum)