enucleation

See also: énucléation

English

Noun

enucleation (countable and uncountable, plural enucleations)

  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors.
  2. (microbiology) The removal of the nuclear body of a cell.
  3. Explanation.
    • 1957, Gerald Frank Else, Aristotle's Poetics: The Argument (page 162)
      Perhaps this enucleation of Aristotle's theory is enough, without further commentary.
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