enucleate

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English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
  • (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliɪt/, /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
  • Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt

Verb

enucleate (third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past and past participle enucleated)

  1. (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
  2. (transitive, medicine) To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space
  3. (archaic) To explain; to lay bare.

Derived terms

Translations

Adjective

enucleate (not comparable)

  1. Enucleated, having no nucleus.

Noun

enucleate (plural enucleates)

  1. (biology) A cell which has been enucleated
    • 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:
      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.

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

enucleate

  1. inflection of enucleare:
    1. second-person plural present indicative
    2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

enucleate f pl

  1. feminine plural of enucleato

Latin

Etymology

ēnucleātus (pure, plain) +‎

Pronunciation

Adverb

ēnucleātē (not comparable)

  1. plainly, in an unadorned manner

References

  • enucleate”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • enucleate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers