What's the difference between decapitate and decollate?
Decapitate
Definition:
(v. t.) To cut off the head of; to behead.
(v. t.) To remove summarily from office.
Example Sentences:
(1) However, decapitation did not eliminate the sex difference in the tissue content of P4 during control incubations.
(2) To understand the control mechanisms involved in the regulation of fetal glycogen, we have studied the effect of in utero fetal decapitations on glycogen metabolism in rabbit fetal heart, lung, and liver.
(3) After 21 days of gestation the morphine-dependent dams were decapitated and the foetal brains were dissected.
(4) Circulation was terminated by decapitation at 15s following injection.
(5) Rats were decapitated and the dissection begun either immediately ("0 min" samples) or 10 min later (10 min samples).
(6) When animals are decapitated a new head regenerates.
(7) The time course of hormonal peaks in decapitated females resembles that in starved females during the first post-ecdysial week, suggesting that some as yet unknown regulating mechanism of ECD production lies outside the head.
(8) At the end of the last stress period animals were decapitated and trunk blood was collected.
(9) After different time intervals the last infusion period to the EEG-criterion was followed by decapitation and samples from blood, brain, muscle and fat were analysed for hexobarbital content.
(10) An activation of phosphorylase which was not accompanied by a stable change in the activity of phosphorylase kinase was observed in hepatocytes incubated with phenylephrine, isoproterenol or vasopressin as well as on decapitation of unanesthetized animals.
(11) This same blunted response was not seen in chronic stress even if the animals are stressed immediately before decapitation.
(12) CC extracts and JHA were administered to decapitated females to determine their regulative effects on fat body protein synthesis.
(13) From a comparison of activation by strychnine and picrotoxin in normal and chronically decapitated embryos it was deduced that a spinal and a supraspinal component participated in their effect.
(14) The experimental animals were administered intraperitoneally benzene 6 X every 24 h. The animals were decapitated 30 min.
(15) In addition, in three unoperated rats decapitated 24 hours after MK-801 treatment, 3H-TCP binding was reduced by 15-35%; similar bilateral suppression of 3H-TCP binding was detected in MK-801-treated ligates.
(16) The neurons were identified antidromically either by stimulation of the hindlimb area in the anterior lobe of the cerebellum (in thalamic cats) or by stimulation of the contralateral ventrolateral funiculus of the spinal cord (in decapitate cats).
(17) Animals were killed by decapitation, and the subfornical organ was quickly dissected out and incubated for 6 h in a medium containing [35S]methionine and [35S]cysteine.
(18) He was kicked out of a share house after threatening to decapitate a housemate.
(19) Thus, in low-flow states, the decapitation time may be lengthened to 12 s, whereas in high-flow states, the time must be 5 s to eliminate the possibility of backflux of tracer out of the brain.
(20) [3H]tyrosine was administered to rats 10 minutes before decapitation, and the rate of its incorporation into [3H]dopamine and [3H]norepinephrine was measured in whole brain.
Decollate
Definition:
(v. t.) To sever from the neck; to behead; to decapitate.
Example Sentences:
(1) On the other hand, placenta adhering to the uterine wall proliferated, and formed new implantation traces which did not overlap the old traces after decollement of the placenta.