Meaning & use
Enucleated
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Had its nucleus or core removed, especially a cell or a tumor; also, surgically removed whole and intact without cutting into it.
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The surgeon enucleated the cyst, removing it whole from the surrounding tissue.
Researchers studied enucleated cells to see how they behaved without a nucleus.
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Enucleate comes from the Latin nucleus, 'kernel,' and literally means 'to remove the kernel,' whether that kernel is a cell nucleus, a tumor, or, in its oldest medical sense, an eyeball.
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