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.(-ĭt, -āt′)Biology
Lacking a nucleus.
[Latin ēnucleāre, ēnucleāt-, to take out the kernel : ē-, ex-, ex- + nucleus, kernel; see nucleus.]
e·nu′cle·a′tion n.
e·nu′cle·a′tor n.
enucleate
vb (tr)
1. (Biology) biology to remove the nucleus from (a cell)
2. (Surgery) surgery to remove (a tumour or other structure) from its capsule without rupturing it
3. archaic to explain or disclose
adj
(Biology) (of cells) deprived of their nuclei
[C16: from Latin ēnūcleāre to remove the kernel, from nūcleus kernel]
eˌnucleˈationn
e•nu•cle•ate
(v. ɪˈnu kliˌeɪt, ɪˈnyu-; adj. -ɪt, -ˌeɪt)
v. -at•ed, -at•ing, adj. v.t.
1. to deprive (a cell) of the nucleus.
2. to remove (a kernel, tumor, eyeball, etc.) from its enveloping cover.
3. Archaic. to bring out; disclose; explain.
adj.
4. having no nucleus.
[1540–50; < Latin ēnucleātus, past participle of ēnucleāre literally, to remove the pit from (fruit) =ē-e- + -nucleāre, derivative of nucleus; see nucleus]
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
2.
enucleate - remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover
surgery - the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures; "he is professor of surgery at the Harvard Medical School"
remove, take away, withdraw, take - remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract; "remove a threat"; "remove a wrapper"; "Remove the dirty dishes from the table"; "take the gun from your pocket"; "This machine withdraws heat from the environment"
The patients were treated with therapies such as laser photocoagulation, cryotherapy, intravitreal injections (bevacizumab, triamcinolone acetonide) and intravitreal dexamethasone implants either alone or in combination, as well as surgical interventions like scleral buckling and pars plana vitrectomy; some eyes that developed neovascular glaucoma and phthisis were enucleated. The authors' main objective was to avoid vascular anomalies and their associated complications through repeated combined therapies.
All of these therapies basically involve installing the nuclear genes from the eggs of women who have faulty mitochondria into enucleated eggs donated by women whose mitochondria are healthy.
When the involved tooth or teeth is/ are hopless or non-strategic, enucleation of the cyst followed by extraction of involved tooth or teeth is recommended.8 The cystic wall must be totally enucleated surgically to remove all epithelial remnants inorder to prevent recurrence of the lesion.
The eye was enucleated and the tumor, which appeared to arise in the peripheral retina, was determined by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) to be a PNET/Ewing sarcoma.
Out of 350 cases; 111 swellings were incised and drained followed by antibiotics, 106 swellings were enucleated, 71 swellings were excised, 46 were resected, 6 cases received antibiotics and 5 cases were marsupialized.
