decortication

GUPTA: Theoretically, it could, but this procedure, called decortication, actually removes not only the scar tissue, but the layer of tissue around the lung that causes scarring in the first place.

CNN Transcript Mar 11, 2005 2005

The operation is called a decortication pleurectomy, and was done while one lung was deflated and a tube was inserted to ventilate the other.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

This process is known as decortication and, as well as raising the oil content of the raw material entering the extraction machinery, it ensures a higher protein content in the oil-cake.

Chapter 5 1995

Processing of ramie fibers requires two operations, namely decortication and degumming:

Chapter 7 1992

This property has given rise to an operation called decortication, the results of which we shall examine later on from an industrial point of view.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 275, April 9, 1881 Various

So, I've been mulling over CodeBlueBlog's coverage of Bill Clinton's decortication.

Archive 2005-03-01 2005

Such grain lends itself to high storage losses, low decortication yields, poor food quality, and poor seedling vigor.

Chapter 27 1996

It is for this reason that traditional hand decortication often produces low yields of flour (not to mention its tendency to go rancid during storage).

6. Pearl Millet: Commercial Types 1996

He found her comatose with evidence of decortication, a condition relating to derangement of the cortex of the brain causing a physical posture in which the upper extremities are flexed and the lower extremities are extended.

Law In The Health and Human Services Donald T. Dickson 1995

Known sources of equipment for the decortication of sunflower seeds, groundnuts and palm kernels are listed below.

Chapter 9 1995