enucleation

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e·nu·cle·ate

(ĭ-no͞o′klē-āt′, ĭ-nyo͞o′-)

tr.v. e·nu·cle·at·ed, e·nu·cle·at·ing, e·nu·cle·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. (-ĭt, -āt′) Biology

Lacking a nucleus.

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

e·nu′cle·a′tion n.

e·nu′cle·a′tor n.

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enucleation

1. the process of extraction, as removing the kernel from a nut.
2. a process of clarification. Cf. exacination. — enucleator, n.

enucleation

Surgical removal of a tumor or organ so that it is removed whole rather than in parts.

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Noun

enucleation - surgical removal of something without cutting into it; "the enucleation of the tumor"

surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, surgery, operation - a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery"

enucleation

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Archaic. Something that serves to explain or clarify:

clarification, construction, decipherment, elucidation, exegesis, explanation, explication, exposition, illumination, illustration, interpretation.

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e·nu·cle·a·tion

n. enucleación, extirpación de un tumor o estructura.

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enucleation

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