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decorticate

verb as in remove skin

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His hands were contorted in a strange way — in what neurologists describe as “decorticate posturing,” an indication of brain injury.

Consciousness in congenitally decorticate children: developmental vegetative state as self-fulfilling prophecy.

Many copra-making plants in India and Ceylon are now supplied with decorticating, breaking, and evaporating machinery.

The outlay for fencing against wandering flocks of goats and for decorticating machinery and other expenses would deter the ordinary cultivator from planting, and this could only be profitably undertaken if ample capital were forthcoming.

This removal of the shell makes a great difference in the oilcake, as the decorticated cake is more nutritious than the undecorticated.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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