Enucleation is performed to remove large-sized eye tumors or as a result of traumatic injury when the eye cannot be preserved.

The process of Enucleation of the eye is basically to remove the eye that leaves the muscles and orbitals in tact. The process is often done on blind and painful eyes.

Enucleation is the removal of the eye, leaving the muscles and other eye socket contents intact.

Extenteration is the removal of the eye, taking eveything in the eye socket with it.

Not asked, but answered for completeness sake; evisceration is the removal of the eye's contents, leaving the shell behind - this is sometimes done to reduce pain in a blind eye.

Enucleation proceeds with a sawing motion from back to front. The plane of section begins adjacent to the optic nerve and ends at the periphery of the cornea.

the surgical removal of the eyeball that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact.