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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of removing the cortex or outer layer; removal of the bark or husk.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of stripping off the bark, rind, hull, or outer coat.

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  • noun The removal of the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of anything

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  • noun removal of the outer covering of an organ or part

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Examples

  • 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

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