Crossword clues for enucleate
enucleate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enucleate \E*nu"cle*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enucleated; p. pr. & vb. n. Enucleating.] [L. enucleatus, p. p. of enucleare to enucleate; e out + nucleus kernel.]
To bring or peel out, as a kernel from its enveloping husks its enveloping husks or shell.
(Med.) To remove without cutting (as a tumor).
To bring to light; to make clear.
--Sclater (1654).
Wiktionary
enucleated, having no nucleus. n. (context biology English) A cell which has been #Verb v
1 (context transitive biology English) To remove the nucleus from (a cell). 2 (rfc-sense: English) (context transitive medicine English) To remove; ''especially'', to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor). 3 (rfc-sense: English) (context intransitive medicine English) To remove something; ''especially'', to remove an eyeball or tumor.
WordNet
v. remove the nucleus from (a cell)
remove (a tumor or eye) from an enveloping sac or cover
Usage examples of "enucleate".
There is mentioned the case of a young woman who cut off her right hand and cast it into the fire, and attempted to enucleate her eyes, and also to hold her remaining hand in the fire.
After a traumatic ophthalmitis of the left and sympathetic inflammation of the right eye in a boy of nine, Schenck observed that a group of cilia of the right upper lid and nearly all the lashes of the upper lid of the left eye, which had been enucleated, turned silvery-white in a short time.
The debris of the eyeball was enucleated and a drain was placed in the frontal wound, coming out through the orbit.
An enucleated egg had already been summoned from the files and was on standby.
Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell of the Roslin Institute in Edinburgh, Scotland, took a donor cell from the mammary gland of a six-year-old ewe and put it into an enucleated unfertilized egg.
DNA inside enucleated viruses, targeted at the bone marrow, where blood is manufactured.
His testicles had been enucleated in his fourteenth year, a little late perhaps, and at the direction of his father, a Macedonian aristocrat with huge ambitions for his very bright son.
A Barkakati-carrying cell was inserted into each of these enucleated blastocysts, where it began dividing like a freshly fertilized embryo.
This was the true Art enucleating and discouering the ignorance that wee worke in, our detestable presumption, and publike condemned errors.
She felt far too jazzed up for such a painstaking task as enucleating oocytes.
But if it has been distinguished by a veritable distinction, then, since not even this natural theology with which he is so much pleased is true (for though it has reached as far as the soul, it has not reached to the true God who made the soul), how much more contemptible and false is that civil theology which is chiefly occupied about what is corporeal, as will be shown by its very interpretations, which they have with such diligence sought out and enucleated, some of which I must necessarily mention!
A somatic cell nucleus is inserted in an enucleated ovum and reimplanted in the womb.