enucleation

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Some 22 percent of the group had enucleation, which is the clinical term for eye removal.

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  1. The act of enucleating, or removing a body (as a kernel, seed, tumor, the eyeball, etc.) from its cover, case, capsule, or other envelop.
  2. Figuratively, the act of explaining or making manifest; explanation; exposition. Neither air, nor water, nor food seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease [the plica polonica]. Tooke.

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  • Some 22 percent of the group had enucleation, which is the clinical term for eye removal. —  Softpedia News - Global
  • Surgery was required in 81 percent of patients including eventual removal of the eye (enucleation) in 22 percent. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • Changes in cell-cycle kinetics during the development and evolution of primate neocortex Contribution of thalamic input to the specification of cytoarchitectonic cortical fields in the primate: Effects of bilateral enucleation in the fetal monkey on the boundaries, dimensions, and gyrification of striate and extrastriate cortex —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • If it has appeared, enucleation will be of no value; at all events if there is vision in the exciting eye, the operation should not be done then INFLAMMATION OF THE RETINA FROM BRIGHT'S DISEASE (Albuminuric Retinitis).--The retina is a very delicate structure and we are often able to diagnose Bright's disease from the peculiar effect it produces upon the retina Causes.--The cause is usually Bright's disease, (nephritis) and usually the chronic Interstitial variety. —  Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada
  • His very language is forced and broken lest some saving formula should be lost--distinctities, enucleation, pentad of operative Christianity; he has a whole armoury of these terms, and expects to turn the tide of human thought by fixing the sense of such expressions as "reason," "understanding," "idea." —  Appreciations, with an Essay on Style
 

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  1. = French énucléation; as enucleate, v., + -ion.
 

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