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enucleate

[ih-noo-klee-eyt, ih-nyoo-, ih-noo-klee-it, -eyt, ih-nyoo-] / ɪˈnu kliˌeɪt, ɪˈnju-, ɪˈnu kli ɪt, -ˌeɪt, ɪˈnju- /




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Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors.

From Time Magazine Archive

I suspect that this error must at first have arisen from some confusion between to eliminate and to enucleate.

From A System of Logic: Ratiocinative and Inductive 7th Edition, Vol. II by Mill, John Stuart

First, we may try to assume, or tediously enucleate a consensus of religious truth as a basis of will training, e.g.,

From Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene by Hall, G. Stanley

It is useless to moralise on this, and the purport and significance of it may be left for private meditation to enucleate and enjoy.

From Sir Walter Scott A Lecture at the Sorbonne by Ker, William Paton

But with the light of the New Testament and of modern science, we ought to be able to enucleate the true spiritual idea from such descriptions.

From The Religion of Geology and Its Connected Sciences by Hitchcock, Edward

You take that cell and fuse it to the enucleated egg, activate it — which starts it growing — and transfer it to a surrogate mother.

From Nature Jun. 28, 2016

In reproductive cloning, a donor nucleus is put into an enucleated egg cell, which is then stimulated to divide and develop into an organism.

From Textbooks Apr. 25, 2013

The third and most difficult stage in the procedure involves the insertion of the donor-cell nucleus into the enucleated egg.

From Scientific American Oct. 9, 2012

Tyler's eye would then have to be enucleated.

From Seattle Times Aug. 3, 2011

Let us quit the heavy atmosphere in which we are enucleated; let us in a more unsullied medium—in a more elastic current, contemplate the opinions of men, and observe their various systems.

From The System of Nature, Volume 1 by Holbach, Paul Henri Thiry, baron d'

When the eye is destroyed by panophthalmitis, the propriety of eviscerating or enucleating it will have to be considered.

From Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition. by Miles, Alexander

Those which neither the Society, Mr Rafn, nor anybody else can be said in any definite sense to understand, and which accordingly offer peculiar temptations to enucleating sagacity.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 55, May, 1862 by Various

This was the true Art enucleating and discouering the ignorance that wee worke in, our detestable presumption, and publike condemned errors.

From Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame by Dallington, Robert

Those which neither the Society, Mr. Rafn, nor anybody else can be said in any definite sense to understand, and which accordingly offer peculiar temptations to enucleating sagacity.

From The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell by Lowell, James Russell




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