decerebrate
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət/
Adjective
decerebrate (not comparable)
- (biology) Having the cerebrum removed.
- 1937, Christian A. Ruckmick, “Psychology tomorrow”, in Psychological Review, volume 44, page 148:
- 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.
Verb
decerebrate (third-person singular simple present decerebrates, present participle decerebrating, simple past and past participle decerebrated)
- To remove the cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function.
- 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:
- […] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed.
Translations
to remove the cerebrum
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Italian
Verb
decerebrate
- inflection of decerebrare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
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