Usually means: Removal or damage to cerebrum.
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  1. decerebration: Merriam-Webster
  2. decerebration: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. decerebration: Collins English Dictionary
  4. decerebration: Wordnik
  5. decerebration: Wiktionary
  6. decerebration: Dictionary.com
  7. Decerebration: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. decerebration: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. decerebration: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. decerebration: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. decerebration: Medical dictionary

(Note: See decerebrate as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (decerebration)

noun:  The act of decerebrating; the elimination of cerebral brain function in an animal by removing the cerebrum, cutting across the brain stem, or severing certain arteries in the brain stem.

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