Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To eliminate cerebral brain function in (an animal) by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem, as for purposes of experimentation.
- adjective Deprived of cerebral function, as by having the cerebrum removed.
- adjective Resulting from or as if from decerebration.
- adjective Lacking intelligence or reason.
- noun A decerebrate animal or person.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
decerebrize . - Deprived of the cerebrum; associated with or consecutive to removal of the cerebrum.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective biology Having the
cerebrum removed - verb To remove the
cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb remove the cerebrum from (a human body)
Etymologies
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Examples
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Our voice remains the final bastion against incipient Islamic brain death, when Muslims will become spiritually decerebrate.
Qanta Ahmed, MD: The Adventures of Itamar Marcus and the Hamas Bunny: Palestine at Play 2010
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When will Obama-worshippers cross the “threshold of decerebrate genuflection”?
Immigration reform: Obama and Congress vs. the citizens of the United States 2010
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This is no longer the case by around 2 months of age, when decerebrate infants begin to exhibit the rigidity typical of PVS patients.
What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know Suzanne 2009
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The fact that decerebrate newborns behave much more similarly to normal newborns than to decerebrate adults is already an important distinction that cannot be overemphasized.
What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know Suzanne 2009
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An intellectual who had carved a niche in the decerebrate world of satellite broadcasting, he was an interesting choice as an interviewer.
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Also, associative learning and conditioning, which can occur in some decerebrate newborns, have, to my knowledge, never been reported in older PVS patients.
What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know Suzanne 2009
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If the Democratic party actually had any leadership, or even more than a handful of people who are not decerebrate, they would close this down.
Richardson Defends Bill Clinton From McCarthyism Charge ��� But Blasts Carville 2009
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But at the newborn stage, the essential difference between normal and decerebrate infants is in the area of potential for future development, with only subtle differences in actual, present functioning.
What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know Suzanne 2009
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"I'd rather see them wrestle than be turned into drooling decerebrate mutants like modern show St. Bernards any time."
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Its growth was rapidly accelerated by nanoassemblers, but it remained in a virtually decerebrate condition under external life support until its skull was sufficiently large enough for your brain to be transplanted.
A King of Infinite Space Steele, Allen 1997
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