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Webster 1913 Edition
Enucleate
E-nu′cle-ate
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Enucleated
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Enucleating
.] [L.
enucleatus
, p. p. of enucleare
to enucleate; e
out + nucleus
kernel.] 1.
To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
2.
(Med.)
To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
3.
To bring to light; to make clear.
Sclater (1654).
Webster 1828 Edition
Enucleate
ENU'CLEATE
,Verb.
T.
1.
To clear from knots or lumps, to clear from intricacy; to disentangle.2.
To open as a nucleus; hence, to explain; to clear from obscurity; to make manifest.Definition 2024
enucleate
enucleate
English
Verb
enucleate (third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past and past participle enucleated)
- (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (transitive, medicine) To remove; especially, to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor).
- (Can we clean up(+) this sense?) (intransitive, medicine) To remove something; especially, to remove an eyeball or tumor.
Derived terms
Translations
remove the nucleus
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Adjective
enucleate (not comparable)
- Enucleated, having no nucleus.
Noun
enucleate (plural enucleates)
- (biology) A cell which has been enucleated
- 1973, D.M. Prescott & J.B. Kirkpatrick, “Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells”, in David M. Prescott, editors, Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII, ISBN 0125641079, page 197:
- By 12 hours after enucleation, the rate of incorporation of 3H-labeled amino acids is severely reduced, and by 18 hours many enucleates no longer show detectable incorporation.
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