Definition of Decerebrated

1. decerebrate [v] - See also: decerebrate

Lexicographical Neighbors of Decerebrated

deceptive
deceptive advertising
deceptive cadence
deceptive cadences
deceptively
deceptively misdescriptive
deceptiveness
deceptivenesses
deceptivities
deceptivity
deceptory
decerebrate
decerebrate reflex
decerebrate rigidity
decerebrate state
decerebrated (current term)
decerebrates
decerebrating
decerebration
decerebrations
decerebrise
decern
decerned
decerning
decerniture
decernitures
decerns
decerp
decerped
decerping

Literary usage of Decerebrated

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Journal of Physiology by American Physiological Society (1887- ). (1913)
"These phenomena are very striking in decerebrated pigeons, ... Six years ago the writer kept a completely decerebrated pigeon for nearly a year. ..."

2. The Harvey Lectures by Harvey Society of New York, New York Academy of Medicine (1917)
"3. The Rôle of the Optic Thalami and the Mid-brain.—The important facts in this connection are the hunger behavior of decerebrated animals ..."

3. A Manual of Pharmacology and Its Applications to Therapeutics and Toxicology by Torald Hermann Sollmann (1922)
"Hypnotic Response of decerebrated Rabbits.—Chloral and urethane have a much more intensive action than in normal animals. Further, while normal animals are ..."

4. The Control of Hunger in Health and Disease by Anton Julius Carlson (1916)
"3. Role of the optic thalami and the mid-brain.—The important facts in this connection are the hunger behavior of decerebrated animals ..."

5. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"Second, one may here consider the decerebrated animal of Sherrington. The decerebrated animal, especially if placed in a position where gravity exerts its ..."

6. The Anatomy of the Nervous System from the Standpoint of Development and by Stephen Walter Ranson (1920)
"of decerebrated dogs, which Sherrington (1906) clearly showed to be a proprio- ceptive reflex that under normal conditions serves to keep the limbs from ..."

7. A Text-book of Human Physiology: Including Histology and Microscopical by Leonard Landois, Albert Philson Brubaker (1905)
"Tickling the foreleg of decerebrated tritons, lizards, turtles, and deeply narcotized dogs ... On applying feeble stimuli to the leg of a decerebrated frog, ..."

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