Associations to the word «Enucleation»

Wiktionary

ENUCLEATION, noun. (surgery) The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors.
ENUCLEATION, noun. (microbiology) The removal of the nuclear body of a cell.

Dictionary definition

ENUCLEATION, noun. Surgical removal of something without cutting into it; "the enucleation of the tumor".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats