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enucleator

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e·nu·cle·ate   (ĭ-nōō'klē-āt', ĭ-nyōō'-)   
tr.v.   e·nu·cle·at·ed, e·nu·cle·at·ing, e·nu·cle·ates

  1. Medicine To remove (a tumor or eye, for example) whole from an enveloping cover or sac.

  2. Biology To remove the nucleus of.

  3. Archaic To explain; elucidate.

adj.   Biology (-ĭt, -āt')
Lacking a nucleus.

[Latin ēnucleāre, ēnucleāt-, to take out the kernel : ē-, ex-, ex- + nucleus, kernel; see nucleus.]
e·nu'cle·a'tion n., e·nu'cle·a'tor n.
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