enucleate

  1. Verb.  (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
  2. Verb.  (transitive, medicine) To remove; ''especially'', to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor).
  3. Verb.  (intransitive, medicine) To remove something; ''especially'', to remove an eyeball or tumor.
  4. Noun.  (biology) A cell which has been enucleated.

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