enucleate
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to enucleate (third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past enucleated, past participle enucleated)
- (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus (of a cell).
- (transitive, medicine) To remove something (often eyeball(s) or tumor) in its entirety; to gouge it out.
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remove the nucleus
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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 eds., Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII[1], 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.
- 1973, D.M. Prescott & J.B. Kirkpatrick, “Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells”, in David M. Prescott eds., Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII[1], ISBN 0125641079, page 197:
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enucleate
- Second-person plural present tense of enucleare.
- Second-person plural imperative of enucleare.
- Feminine plural of enucleato.
