Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of enucleating, or removing a body (as a kernel, seed, tumor, the eyeball, etc.) from its cover, case, capsule, or other envelop.
- noun Figuratively, the act of explaining or making manifest; explanation; exposition.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun surgery The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the
eye and of cysts and tumors. - noun microbiology The removal of the nuclear body of a cell.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun surgical removal of something without cutting into it
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Examples
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Some 22 percent of the group had enucleation, which is the clinical term for eye removal.
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The result is that the people in Stezaker's collages seem to suffer a variety of austerely rendered optical afflictions, from a squint or strabismus to full enucleation: in the series Blind, the eyeballs have been razored out along a straight line and the edges of the photograph brought together again.
Brian Dillon on John Stezaker at the Whitechapel Gallery 2011
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When only one eye is involved, enucleation is usually the treatment of choice.
Retinoblastoma - Diagnosing and Treating Retinoblastoma in Children 2009
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A decade ago, treatment options included enucleation (removal of the involved eye) or radiation.
Retinoblastoma - Diagnosing and Treating Retinoblastoma in Children 2009
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For those who missed the earlier posts, Renki's eye turned cancerous and enucleation was the only viable treatment.
October 11th, 2007 ceciliatan 2007
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In 2.3 per cent the eye was attacked by iridocyclitis and in 3.4 per cent enucleation was found to be necessary.
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Priestley Smith has pointed out that the glaucomatous eye softens more slowly than the normal eye after enucleation, in spite of the fact that a greater force is operating to drive fluid out of the eye.
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But it may become suddenly worse, or go on to complete blindness with pain, demanding enucleation, after some temporary perturbation, as the performance of a glaucoma operation.
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Since it undergoes atrophy after enucleation of the eyeballs, it may be considered as forming a path for visual sensations.
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Trenchard made his way back to Wilding to tell him what he had seen and to lay before him, for his enucleation, the problem of Blake's being the leader of it.
Mistress Wilding Rafael Sabatini 1912
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'Here however his lawyer worked his weighty way through the uproar and started holding these dockets up against the cabin wall for him to sign one after another, affably bawling his full-phrased enucleation of each in turn into his ear...'
- W.M. Spackman, An Armful of Warm Girl
January 2, 2012