In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state.
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Decerebrate
//dɪˈsɛɹəbɹət//
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Finnish
1 entries- poistaa isotaivot verb (to remove the cerebrum)
French
1 entries- décérébrer verb (to remove the cerebrum)
Italian
1 entries- decerebrare verb (to remove the cerebrum)
Polish
2 entries- odkorować verb (to remove the cerebrum)
- odkorowywać verb (to remove the cerebrum)
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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.
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All brain tissue rostral to the diencephalon was removed, making the preparation a decerebrate one.
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[…] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed.
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