Decerebrate (Verb)
Meaning
Remove the cerebrum from (a human body).
Classification
Verbs of buying, selling, owning.
Examples
- The surgeons were able to decerebrate the patient's body after obtaining permission from the family, allowing the organs to be donated for research.
- In the lab, the students were taught how to decerebrate a cadaver in order to study the brainstem and spinal cord.
- The medical team was careful not to damage the remaining tissue when they decerebrated the donor body, ensuring the viability of the organs for transplantation.
- Researchers have difficulty finding human subjects for study, making it impossible to decerebrate a human body for all but the most critical and medically justifiable research.
- When the medical community learned of the scientist's plan to decerebrate a human body for neuromuscular research, a heated debate ensued regarding the ethics of the study.