decerebrate
/dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.29 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
4
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state."
- "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."
- "All brain tissue rostral to the diencephalon was removed, making the preparation a decerebrate one."
- "[…] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed."
- "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 […]"
- "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."
Etymology
From de- + cerebrate.
Word Breakdown
- Prefix: de
Regional Pronunciation
- British English: /dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət/