At this moment, presumably, Lincoln became decerebrate, that is brain dead. From LearnThat.org.
When will Obama-worshippers cross the “threshold of decerebrate genuflection”?. From Wordnik.com. [Immigration reform: Obama and Congress vs. the citizens of the United States] Reference
(C) Again, the typical opening of the crossed extensor reflex (decerebrate) "recruits". From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
For this the reflex evoked by passive flexion of knee in the decerebrate preparation has been taken. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Hartline undertook the study of the retinal action potential using frogs, decerebrate cats and rabbits. From Wordnik.com. [Haldan K. Hartline - Biography] Reference
Nevertheless, a decerebrate animal cannot be conditioned as specifically as can one with its cerebrum intact. From Wordnik.com. [The Human Brain]
"I'd rather see them wrestle than be turned into drooling decerebrate mutants like modern show St. Bernards any time.". From Wordnik.com. [Wrestling Dogs of Central Asia] Reference
This is no longer the case by around 2 months of age, when decerebrate infants begin to exhibit the rigidity typical of PVS patients. From Wordnik.com. [What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know] Reference
An intellectual who had carved a niche in the decerebrate world of satellite broadcasting, he was an interesting choice as an interviewer. From Wordnik.com. [Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners] Reference
If the Democratic party actually had any leadership, or even more than a handful of people who are not decerebrate, they would close this down. From Wordnik.com. [Richardson Defends Bill Clinton From McCarthyism Charge ��� But Blasts Carville] Reference
Usually clearly demonstrable in the simple spinal condition of the reflex, this complexity of character is yet more evident in the decerebrate condition. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
Also, associative learning and conditioning, which can occur in some decerebrate newborns, have, to my knowledge, never been reported in older PVS patients. From Wordnik.com. [What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know] Reference
In reflexes, even under simple spinal or decerebrate conditions, interplay between excitation and inhibition is commonly induced even by the simplest stimulus. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
This again illustrates the ubiquitous commingling of inhibition and excitation in the spinal and decerebrate reflexes evoked by direct stimulation of afferent nerves. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
The fact that decerebrate newborns behave much more similarly to normal newborns than to decerebrate adults is already an important distinction that cannot be overemphasized. From Wordnik.com. [What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know] Reference
But at the newborn stage, the essential difference between normal and decerebrate infants is in the area of potential for future development, with only subtle differences in actual, present functioning. From Wordnik.com. [What Experts Know, What Doctors Know, What Moms Know] Reference
Its growth was rapidly accelerated by nanoassemblers, but it remained in a virtually decerebrate condition under external life support until its skull was sufficiently large enough for your brain to be transplanted. From Wordnik.com. [A King of Infinite Space]
It is in virtue of their containing inhibition and excitation admixt that, in accord with central conditions prevailing for the time being, a limb-reflex provoked by a given stimulus in the decerebrate preparation can on one occasion be opposite in direction to what it is on another, e.g. extension instead of Aexion ( "reversal") Excitation and inhibition are both present from the very stimulus out-set and are pitted against one another. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I started to work on spinal motor neurons in decerebrate cats. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBlaze.com Current News - Top Stories] Reference
I mention not the levels at all, nor do I speak of "decerebrate metaphysics.". From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Abnormal Psychology] Reference
You haven't the sense of a decerebrate Capellan grackle! ". From Wordnik.com. [The Lani People] Reference
"tonic" background (decerebrate rigidity) made it a welcome and immediate opportunity for the more precise study of inhibition as. From Wordnik.com. [Sir Charles Sherrington - Nobel Lecture] Reference
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