enucleate meaning: definition, etymology and quotations

enucleate

verb

/ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/ · /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/

Etymology Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).

Biology, Natural sciences To remove the nucleus from (a cell).

Medicine, Sciences To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space

Archaic To explain; to lay bare.

adj

/ɪˈnukliɪt/ · /ɪˈnjukliɪt/

Etymology Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).

Enucleated, having no nucleus.

noun

Etymology Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).

Biology, Natural sciences A cell which has been enucleated

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, →ISBN, page 197:

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