For reasons that are poorly understood, but which may be related to high intracranial pressure, children with malaria frequently exhibit decorticate, decerebrate, and opisthotonic posturing.
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The Setralit techniques are applied either on crushed dry straw of bast fiber plants ( mechanical fiber extraction ) or on decorticated fibers ( long fibers, flax tow ).
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This type of white pepper is usually marked " decorticated " and tastes more like black pepper than white pepper that has been allowed to ripen on the vine.
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A decorticate posturing indicates a lesion ( a point of damage ) at or above the red nucleus, whereas a decerebrate posturing indicates a lesion at or below the red nucleus.
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Patients with decorticate posturing present with the arms flexed, or bent inward on the chest, the hands are clenched into fists, and the legs extended and feet turned inward.
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Even though many suppliers claim the " full-automatic " type for their decorticating units, the actual operation identifies the " semi-automatic " features by several stops during operation.
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This is a monotypic genus, containing the single species " "'Cyanoannulus petersenii " "', which was found growing on decorticated wood in a stream in North Carolina.
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A person displaying decorticate posturing in response to pain gets a score of three in the motor section of the Glasgow Coma Scale, due to the flexion of muscles due to the neuro-muscular response to the trauma.
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[EGW ] Collected and identified by EGW; on dead decorticated limb of " Pinus virginiana ", near Dolfield Road in pine woods near downstream end of pipe under the road . ( 1 January 1983 ) L-355
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While decorticate posturing is still an ominous sign of severe brain damage, decerebrate posturing is usually indicative of more severe damage at the rubrospinal tract, and hence, the red nucleus is also involved, indicating a lesion lower in the brainstem.
