spinalize
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spinalize (third-person singular simple present spinalizes, present participle spinalizing, simple past and past participle spinalized)
- (medicine, transitive) To surgically separate the spinal cord of (an animal) from the brain.
- 2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement:
- Such procedures may involve surgically separating the spinal cord from the brain. In this case, the animal is called spinalized or a spinal preparation. If we assume that every volitional act comes from the brain, then in a spinalized animal all muscle reactions to external stimuli are apparently reflexes, because signals from the brain cannot reach the spinal cord.
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