decerebrate

adj

1. (not-comparable)Having the cerebrum removed.

   “In this respect the decerebrate condition offers some resemblance to the cataleptic state.”

   “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.”

   “All brain tissue rostral to the diencephalon was removed, making the preparation a decerebrate one.”

verb

1. To remove the cerebrum in order to eliminate brain function.

   “[…] and the correct principles of delivering it through the different straits of the pelvis after the head has been decerebrated and crushed.”

   “The method employed was to decerebrate a frog, to wait till the shock of this operation had so far passed off, to ligate the iliac artery and vein of one limb […]”

   “This conceptual experiment can be physically demonstrated by decerebrating or spinalizing an animal and using a neuromuscular blockade or deafferentiation to remove rhythmic sensory feedback.”