Meaning & use
Decorticated
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Having had the outer layer, bark, husk, or covering removed; in medicine, having had the cortex of an organ surgically removed.
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The decorticated rice grains cooked much faster than the whole-grain kind.
Surgeons performed a decorticated lung procedure to remove the thickened membrane restricting her breathing.
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From Latin 'cortex' (bark); used in botany and agriculture for husked grains and in medicine for surgical removal of an organ's outer layer.
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