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Scalp vs Decorticate - What's the difference?

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Scalp is a related term of decorticate.


As verbs the difference between scalp and decorticate

is that scalp is to remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident while decorticate is to peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something.

As a noun scalp

is the top of the head; the skull.

scalp

English

(wikipedia scalp)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The top of the head; the skull.
  • The part of the head where the hair grows from, or used to grow from.
  • * 2014 , Kaitlin Newman in Baltimore Sun'', '' Five years after beating, Ryan Diviney’s family holds out hope
  • *:The original titanium mesh plate that was inserted in the summer of 2010 was removed last June since it was causing his scalp to break down.
  • * c. 1590 , (William Shakespeare), The Two Gentlemen of Verona
    • By the bare scalpe of Robin Hoods fat Fryer, / This fellow were a King, for our wilde faction.
  • A part of the skin of the head, with the hair attached, formerly cut or torn off from an enemy by Native American warriors as a token of victory.
    • Some tribes used to collect scalps to prove how many of the enemy they had killed in battle.
  • A victory.
  • * 1993 , John Frohnmayer, Leaving Town Alive: Confessions of an Arts Warrior (page 331)
    • Pat Buchanan, in his ongoing presidential quest, claimed his first scalp , and Donald Wildmon's newsletter chortled that his efforts in opposing the NEA had paid off.
  • (Scotland) A bed or stratum of shellfish; a scaup.
  • (figurative) The top; the summit.
    • (Macaulay)

    Derived terms

    * scalpless * scalpy

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove the scalp (part of the head from where the hair grows), by brutal act or accident.
  • (slang) To resell, especially tickets, usually for an inflated price, often illegally.
  • To screen or sieve ore before further processing
    • scalped ore
  • (surgery) To remove the skin of.
  • * J. S. Wells
    • We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye].
  • (milling) To brush the hairs or fuzz from (wheat grains, etc.) in the process of high milling.
    • (Knight)

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    decorticate

    English

    Verb

    (decorticat)
  • To peel or remove the bark, husk, or outer layer from something.
  • To surgically remove the surface layer, membrane, or fibrous cover of an organ etc.

    • Derived terms

    * decorticated * decortication