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Verb: decorticate  dee'kor-tu`keyt
  1. Remove the outer layer of
    "decorticate a tree branch"
     
  2. Remove the cortex of (an organ)

Derived forms: decorticating, decorticated, decorticates

See also: decortication

Type of: remove, strip, take, take away, withdraw

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