enucleated

English

Adjective

enucleated (not comparable)

1. Having been enucleated.
   • 1905, Naohide Yatsu, The Formation of Centrosomes in Enucleated Egg-fragments, page 304:

     Five enucleated fragments were cut from the egg immediately after they were released and kept for an hour in the sterilized water;

   • 2012, Carl A. Pinkert, Transgenic Animal Technology, page 197:

     For the nuclear transfer of somatic cells in farm animals, donor cells are fused with enucleated oocytes by eletric stimulation.

   • 2013, Jose Cibelli, ‎Ian Wilmut, ‎Rudolf Jaenisch, Principles of Cloning, page 188:

     When nuclei of medaka adult somatic cells were used as donors for transfer into enucleated recipient eggs, successful development of transplant embryos was markedly reduced (unpublished data); however, fertile, diploid NTs had been produced in previous studies in which embryonic cell nuclei were transferred into enucleated eggs.

Derived terms

• nonenucleated
• unenucleated

 

Verb

enucleated

1. simple past and past participle of enucleate

Anagrams

• denucleate