decorticate
61excorticate — /eks kawr ti kayt /, v.t., excorticated, excorticating. decorticate. [1375 1425 for earlier adj. sense; 1650 60 for current sense; late ME excorticat hulled < LL excorticatus, ptp. of excorticare to peel. See EX 1, CORTEX, ATE] * * * …
62strip — strip1 /strip/, v., stripped or stript, stripping, n. v.t. 1. to deprive of covering: to strip a fruit of its rind. 2. to deprive of clothing; make bare or naked. 3. to take away or remove: to strip sheets from the bed. 4. to deprive or divest:… …
63decortication — noun The removal of the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of anything See Also: decorticate, decorticated …
64decerebrate rigidity — an abnormal body posture produced by decerebration. In experimental animals it is marked by rigid extension of the lower limbs (hindlimbs in a quadruped). In humans it is manifested by the person lying in rigid extension with the upper limbs… …
65bark — Synonyms and related words: ablate, abrade, abrase, advertise, animal noise, argosy, ballyhoo, bang, barking, battle cry, bawl, bay, bell, bellow, bill, birdcall, blare, blast, blat, blate, bleat, blemish, bloody, blubber, boat, boom, boost,… …
66excoriate — Synonyms and related words: abrade, assail, attack, bark, blister, castigate, decorticate, flay, fret, fustigate, gall, lash, pare, peel, roast, rub, scalp, scarify, scathe, scorch, scourge, skin, skin alive, slash, strip, trounce …
67flay — Synonyms and related words: assail, attack, bark, berate, bleed, bleed white, blister, castigate, decorticate, defoliate, denude, deplume, despoil, dismember, displume, divest, drain, draw and quarter, dry, excoriate, exhaust, fleece, fustigate,… …
68pare — Synonyms and related words: abridge, abscind, amputate, annihilate, ax, ban, bar, bark, beat down, bisect, bob, break, butcher, carve, cheapen, chop, cleave, clip, compress, crop, cull, curtail, cut, cut away, cut back, cut down, cut in two, cut… …
69peel — Synonyms and related words: abscind, acropolis, amputate, annihilate, ban, bar, bark, bastion, beachhead, blockhouse, bob, bran, bridgehead, bunker, capsule, case, castle, chaff, citadel, clip, coat, coating, collop, cork, corn shuck, cornhusk,… …
70scale — Synonyms and related words: Danish balance, Indian file, Lambert conformal projection, Mercator projection, Miller projection, Roman balance, Weightometer, accommodation ladder, adjust, aeronautical chart, alloy balance, amount, amplitude,… …
