Usually means: Removal of outer layer surgically.
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  1. excortication: Collins English Dictionary
  2. excortication: Wordnik
  3. excortication: Wiktionary
  4. Excortication: Dictionary.com
  5. Excortication: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  6. excortication: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  7. Excortication: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  8. excortication: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  9. excortication: FreeDictionary.org
  10. Excortication: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ noun:  The act of stripping off bark, or a similar structure
▸ noun:  The state of being stripped of bark, or something similar.

Similar:
scarification, girdle, ring-bark, rasion, debarker, crut, kerf, peel, raclage, scarping, more...

Opposite:
incortication, covering, coating, layering

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Similar:
scarification, girdle, ring-bark, rasion, debarker, crut, kerf, peel, raclage, scarping, more...

Opposite:
incortication, covering, coating, layering



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