enucleate

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

• enucleation
• self-enucleate

Translations

remove the nucleus

• Hebrew: שלף גרעין (shaláf gar'ín)

remove the eye

• Hebrew: ניקר (nikér)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ископати

  Roman: iskopati (sh)

to remove, especially a tumor

• French: énucléer (fr)

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^[1], →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.

Related terms

• anucleate
• denucleate
• nucleate

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”) +‎ -ē

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): /eː.nu.kleˈaː.teː/, [eːnʊkɫ̪eˈäːt̪eː]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /e.nu.kleˈa.te/, [enukleˈäːt̪e]

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