To remove the flesh or meat from something, particularly from bones or a carcass.
From the prefix 'de-' (remove) combined with 'carnate' (related to flesh, from Latin 'caro' meaning flesh). The term emerged in scientific and medical contexts to describe the process of stripping flesh from bones.
Decarnation is how museum curators and archaeologists clean bones for display or study—boiling or using beetles to remove flesh is an ancient technique that let scientists examine skeletal structures without decomposing the entire specimen.
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