enucleationn.
/ɪˌnjuːklɪˈeɪʃən/ 1. The action of enucleating, or getting out the ‘kernel’ of a matter; unfolding, explanation.
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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > [noun]
keyeOE
undoinga1330
expositiona1340
declarationc1374
declaringc1374
clearingc1380
expoundingc1380
explanationa1382
interpretation1382
exploitingc1390
unfolding1483
explicating1531
explication1537
clearance?1548
elucidation1570
explaining1576
manifestation1576
untwining1577
illustration1581
untwisting1591
eviscerating1599
unclouding1601
enodation1603
opening1611
dilucidation1615
unsnarling1640
declarement1646
enucleation1650
illumination1656
dilucidatinga1660
luciferousness1665
clarifying1677
unravelling1713
disentanglement1751
exegesis1770
disambiguation1827
evisceration1831
keyword1848
clarificationa1866
exponence1880
exponency1880
straightening1900
demystification1964
1650 S. Clarke Marrow Eccl. Hist. (1654) i. 326 To which they added an enucleation of hard texts.
1686 J. Goad Astro-meteorologica i. ix. 27 I say therefore, toward the Enucleation of the Question, etc.
1796 S. Pegge Anonymiana (1809) viii. lxxxiii. 382 Another enucleation of this difficult ecclesiastical term.
1840 Blackwood's Mag. 48 274 The enucleation of separate parts of that which his ambitious intellect yearned towards the production of as a whole.
1862 F. Hall Hindu Canons Dram. (1865) 9 Its writer rarely propounds for scholastic enucleation such an enigma as, etc.
2. Surgery.
a. ‘The shelling out of a tumour, or a structure, or a part, from its capsule or enclosing substance’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations to remove tumours, dead tissue, etc.
oncotomy1728
enucleation1874
sequestrotomy1874
necrotomy1890
cystectomy1891
strumectomy1894
papillectomy1900
sequestrectomy1940
polypectomy1950
tylectomy1972
1874 D. B. St. J. Roosa Dis. Ear 107 Sebaceous tumours should be removed by enucleation.
1876 J. S. Bristowe Treat. Theory & Pract. Med. i. i. 53 They..are..capable of pretty easy enucleation from the tissues in which they are imbedded.
b. The removal of an eye from the socket.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > operations on specific parts or conditions > [noun] > operations on the eye
couching1743
reclination1820
strabotomy1844
iridectomy1855
iridotomy1855
iridodesis1858
enucleation1867
peritomy1869
syndectomy1869
iridodialysis1876
sclerotomy1876
capsulotomy1877
needling1879
evisceration1883
cyclodialysis1908
vitrectomy1968
1867 H. Power Dis. Eye x. 582 Enucleation of the eye.
1949 A. D. Ruedemann in C. Berens Eye & its Diseases (ed. 2) lxix. 983 The nerve may be grasped with enucleation forceps to facilitate the excision of a long piece of the optic nerve.
3. Biology. The extraction of a nucleus from its cell.
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the world > life > biology > laboratory analysis > processes > [noun] > others
inoculation1802
plethysmography1890
auxanography1905
subpassage1907
ultrafiltration1908
enucleation1909
turbidimetry1920
microinjection1921
post-treatment1923
microincineration1924
plasmal reaction1925
bursectomy1928
priming1943
superinfection1947
bioengineering1950
superfusion1953
hybridization1961
sham operation1963
transfection1964
transdetermination1965
perifusion1969
zeugmatography1973
1909 in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang.
1960 L. Picken Organization of Cells iv. vi. 139 The amoeba is unable to spread after enucleation and remains rounded up.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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