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enucleate

 
Dictionary: e·nu·cle·ate   (ĭ-nū'klē-āt', ĭ-nyū'-) pronunciation
tr.v., -at·ed, -at·ing, -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 (-ĭt, -āt')
Lacking a nucleus.

[Latin ēnucleāre, ēnucleāt-, to take out the kernel : ē-, ex-, ex- + nucleus, kernel; see nucleus.]

enucleation e·nu'cle·a'tion n.
enucleator e·nu'cle·a'tor n.

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    To make understandable: construe, decipher, explain, explicate, expound, interpret, spell out. Idioms: put into plain English. See explain/baffle.

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(e-nōō′klē-āt)
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To remove a lesion in its entirety.

Veterinary Dictionary: enucleate
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To remove whole and clean, as the eye from its socket.

 
 

 

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Dental Dictionary. Mosby's Dental Dictionary. Copyright © 2004 by Elsevier, Inc. All rights reserved.  Read more
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