spinalize

Verb

spinalize (third-person singular simple present spinalizes, present participle spinalizing, simple past and past participle spinalized)

1. (transitive) To surgically separate the spinal cord of (an animal) from the brain.
   • Such procedures may involve surgically separating the spinal cord from the brain. In this case, the animal is called spinalized or a spinal preparation. If we assume that every volitional act comes from the brain, then in a spinalized animal all muscle reactions to external stimuli are apparently...2008, Mark L. Latash, Neurophysiological Basis of Movement
   • An injury that results in complete spinal transection at the thoracic or cervical level has the same effect as the surgical procedure used to spinalize animals for use in experiments.2012, James Tresilian, Sensorimotor Control and Learning: An Introduction to the Behavioral Neuroscience of Action