Definition of "enucleate" []

• Medicine To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac. (verb-transitive)
• Biology To remove the nucleus of. (verb-transitive)
• Archaic To explain; elucidate. (verb-transitive)
• Biology Lacking a nucleus. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "The primary methods of treatment are to sear the tumor with high doses of gamma radiation or to enucleate the eye surgically, leaving behind an empty socket."
• "As is apparent from the brief review given above, the relationship between genome size and erythrocyte size is detectable in each of the vertebrate classes, even in the uniquely enucleate case of mammals."
• "Some things are worth knowing on their own account; but others, although apparently offering no return for our trouble, should not be neglected, because without them the former cannot be thoroughly mastered [enucleate sciri non possunt]."