enucle'ation

World English Dictionary
enucleate
 
vb
1.  biology to remove the nucleus from (a cell)
2.  surgery to remove (a tumour or other structure) from its capsule without rupturing it
3.  archaic to explain or disclose
 
adj
4.  (of cells) deprived of their nuclei
 
[C16: from Latin ēnūcleāre to remove the kernel, from nūcleus kernel]
 
enucle'ation
 
n

Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 10th Edition
2009 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins
Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009
Cite This Source
Explore Dictionary.com
Previous Definition: enubilous
Next Definition: enucleate
Words Near: enucle'ation
More from Thesaurus.com
Synonyms and Antonyms for enucle'ation
More from Reference.com
Search for articles containing enucle'ation
More from Dictionary.com Translator
00:10
Enucle'ation is always a great word to know.
So is gobo. Does it mean:
a screen or mat covered with a dark material for shielding a camera lens from excess light or glare.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
Dictionary.com Word FAQs

Dictionary.com presents 366 FAQs, incorporating some of the frequently asked questions from the past with newer queries.

Copyright © 2013 Dictionary.com, LLC. All rights reserved.
  • Please Login or Sign Up to use the Recent Searches feature
FAVORITES
RECENT