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ENUCLEATE
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I. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they enucleate ... he / she / it enucleates
Past simple: enucleated
Past participle: enucleated
-ing form: enucleating
Sense 1
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)
Sense 2
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
