- Medicine. To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac.
- Biology. To remove the nucleus of.
- Archaic. To explain; elucidate.
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.





