Associations to the word «Decorticate»

Wiktionary

DECORTICATE, verb. (transitive) To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something.
DECORTICATE, verb. (transitive) To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc.

Dictionary definition

DECORTICATE, verb. Remove the outer layer of; "decorticate a tree branch".
DECORTICATE, verb. Remove the cortex of (an organ).

Wise words

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery