enucleate
Americanverb (used with object)
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Biology. to deprive of the nucleus.
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to remove (a kernel, tumor, eyeball, etc.) from its enveloping cover.
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Archaic. to bring out; disclose; explain.
adjective
verb
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biology to remove the nucleus from (a cell)
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surgery to remove (a tumour or other structure) from its capsule without rupturing it
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archaic to explain or disclose
adjective
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of enucleate
First recorded in 1540–50; from Latin ēnucleātus (past participle of ēnucleāre “to remove the pit from (fruit)”), equivalent to ē- e- 1 + nucle(us) nucleus + -ātus -ate 1
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Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors.
From Time Magazine Archive
I suspect that this error must at first have arisen from some confusion between to eliminate and to enucleate.
From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by John Stuart Mill
It is useless to moralise on this, and the purport and significance of it may be left for private meditation to enucleate and enjoy.
From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by William Paton Ker
Naturally connected with the conclusion that the nuclei are the carriers of hereditary characters in the organism, is the question whether enucleate organisms can also exist.
From Darwin and Modern Science by A. C. (Albert Charles) Seward
But with the light of the New Testament and of modern science, we ought to be able to enucleate the true spiritual idea from such descriptions.
From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Edward Hitchcock
Somatic cell nuclear transfer is the technique of transferring a diploid nucleus into an enucleated egg.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022
You take that cell and fuse it to the enucleated egg, activate it — which starts it growing — and transfer it to a surrogate mother.
From Nature ● Jun. 28, 2016
The third and most difficult stage in the procedure involves the insertion of the donor-cell nucleus into the enucleated egg.
From Scientific American ● Oct. 9, 2012
Tyler's eye would then have to be enucleated.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2011
They grow slowly, and are usually definitely circumscribed by a fibrous capsule, from which they are easily enucleated, and they do not tend to recur after removal.
From Manual of Surgery Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. by Alexis Thomson
This was the true Art enucleating and discouering the ignorance that wee worke in, our detestable presumption, and publike condemned errors.
From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Robert Dallington
Those which neither the Society, Mr Rafn, nor anybody else can be said in any definite sense to understand, and which accordingly offer peculiar temptations to enucleating sagacity.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various
Those which neither the Society, Mr. Rafn, nor anybody else can be said in any definite sense to understand, and which accordingly offer peculiar temptations to enucleating sagacity.
From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by James Russell Lowell
When the eye is destroyed by panophthalmitis, the propriety of eviscerating or enucleating it will have to be considered.
From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Alexander Miles
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