ENUCLEATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enucleate mean? 

• ENUCLEATE (verb)
  The verb ENUCLEATE has 2 senses:

1. remove the nucleus from (a cell)

2. remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover

  Familiarity information: ENUCLEATE used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENUCLEATE (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they enucleate    ... he / she / it enucleates   
Past simple: enucleated   
Past participle: enucleated   
-ing form: enucleating   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Remove the nucleus from (a cell)

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "enucleate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

biological science; biology (the science that studies living organisms)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sense 2

Meaning:

Remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover

Classified under:

Verbs of size, temperature change, intensifying, etc.

Hypernyms (to "enucleate" is one way to...):

remove; take; take away; withdraw (remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract)

Domain category:

surgery (the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

enucleation (surgical removal of something without cutting into it)