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Definition of Enucleate

1. Verb. Remove the nucleus from (a cell).

2. Verb. Remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover.

Definition of Enucleate

1. v. t. To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.

Definition of Enucleate

1. Verb. (transitive biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell). ¹

2. Verb. (transitive medicine) To remove; ''especially'', to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor). ¹

3. Verb. (intransitive medicine) To remove something; ''especially'', to remove an eyeball or tumor. ¹

4. Noun. (biology) A cell which has been enucleated ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Enucleate

1. [v -ATED, -ATING, -ATES]

Medical Definition of Enucleate

1. 1. To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell. 2. To remove without cutting (as a tumour). 3. To bring to light; to make clear. Origin: L. Enucleatus, p. P. Of enucleare to enucleate; e out + nucleus kernel. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Enucleate

entwinements entwines entwining entwinings entwist entwisted entwisting entwists entwite entypy

entz enubilate enubilated enubilating enubilous enucleate (current term) enucleated enucleates enucleating enucleation

enucleations enuf enuff enum enumerabilities enumerability enumerable enumerably enumerate enumerated

Literary usage of Enucleate

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Medical Times and Gazette (1879)
"... sight is utterly loet—the best thing to be done is to enucleate the affected eye, and to avoid the present pain and the risk of sympathetic irritation ..."

2. A Handbook of the diseases of the eye and their treatment by Henry Rosborough Swanzy (1897)
"I would enucleate in a case of phthisis bulbi, even of old standing, ... I would not enucleate the exciting eye, if sympathetic ophthalmitis had already ..."

3. Annals of Ophthalmology (1904)
"enucleate at once if a foreign body is present in, and cannot be removed from, ... enucleate at once when an injured eye is blind and suffering from ..."

4. Eye Injuries and Their Treatment by Andrew Maitland Ramsay (1907)
"enucleate at once when the injury is so severe that the exciting eye is ... enucleate at once on the slightest sign of sympathetic irritation should the ..."

5. The Chicago Medical Journal and Examiner (1887)
"Mori' or li'BB vision. TREATMENT. Normal. Enucleation in unintelligent and children. Sympathetic irritation. enucleate. Sympathetic inflammation. Normal. ..."

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