enucleation

e·nu·cle·ate  (-nkl-t, -ny-)

tr.v. e·nu·cle·at·ed, e·nu·cle·at·ing, e·nu·cle·ates

1. Medicine To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac.

2. Biology To remove the nucleus of.

3. Archaic To explain; elucidate.

adj. Biology (-t, -t)

Lacking a nucleus.

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[Latin nuclere, nuclet-, to take out the kernel : -, ex-, ex- + nucleus, kernel; see nucleus.]

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e·nucle·ation n.

e·nucle·ator n.

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enucleation

1. the process of extraction, as removing the kernel from a nut.
2. a process of clarification. Cf. exacination. — enucleator, n.

See also: Processes

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Noun

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enucleation - surgical removal of something without cutting into it; "the enucleation of the tumor" surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"