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Definition of Enucleation
1. Noun. Surgical removal of something without cutting into it. "The enucleation of the tumor"
Derivative terms: Enucleate
Definition of Enucleation
1. n. The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
Definition of Enucleation
1. Noun. (surgery) The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors. ¹
2. Noun. (microbiology) The removal of the nuclear body of a cell. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Enucleation
1. [n -S]
Medical Definition of Enucleation
1. The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition. "Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease." (Tooke) Origin: Cf. F. Enucleation. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Enucleation
Literary usage of Enucleation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Ophthalmic surgery: A Handbook of the Surgical Operations on the Eyeball and by Josef Meller (1912)
"The presence of an intraocular tumor is indication for enucleation, ... If after
an injury iridocyclitis develops, enucleation is not performed until both ..."
2. Diseases of the eye by George Edmund De Schweinitz (1916)
"The after-treatment of an enucleation consists in placing the patient in bed,
... No severe pain ought to follow an enucleation, and decided headache, ..."
3. Transactions of the American Ophthalmological Society Annual Meeting by American Ophthalmological Society (1876)
"On the 1 st of November of the same year, or six months after the enucleation of
the left eye, the mother observed that the right eye had a peculiar glazed ..."
4. The Retrospect of Medicine by William Braithwaite (1867)
"In support of it three cases are here related, in which the author, relying upon
enucleation, had removed large and rapidly-increasing subcutaneous ..."
5. The Half-yearly Abstract of the Medical Sciences: Being a Digest of British edited by William Harcourt Ranking, Charles Bland Radcliffe, William Dommett Stone (1857)
"In this report Mr. Hutchinson brings together 39 operations, viz., 18 in which
primary enucleation was completed, 6 in which primary enucleation was ..."
6. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1875)
"Dr. JUST, of Zittau, records a case of death following enucleation. ... Under these
circumstances enucleation of the left eye was performed. ..."
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