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third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past and past participle enucleated
(transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
(transitive, medicine) To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space examples
(archaic) To explain; to lay bare.
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Enucleated, having no nucleus. examples
plural enucleates
(biology) A cell which has been enucleated quotations
By 12 hours after enucleation, the rate of incorporation of 3H-labeled amino acids is severely reduced, and by 18 hours many enucleates no longer show detectable incorporation.
1973, D.M. Prescott, J.B. Kirkpatrick, “Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells”, in David M. Prescott, editors, Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII, page 197