enucleate
English
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin ēnucleātus, from ēnucleō (“to remove the kernel from”), from ē- + nucleus (“kernel”).
Pronunciation
- (verb) IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (adjective) IPA(key): /ɪˈnukliɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliɪt/, /ɪˈnukliˌeɪt/, /ɪˈnjukliˌeɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛt, -eɪt
Verb
enucleate (third-person singular simple present enucleates, present participle enucleating, simple past and past participle enucleated)
- (transitive, biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
- (transitive, medicine) To extract (an object) intact from an enclosed space
- (archaic) To explain; to lay bare.
Derived terms
Translations
remove the nucleus
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Adjective
enucleate (not comparable)
- Enucleated, having no nucleus.
Noun
enucleate (plural enucleates)
- (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
Italian
Etymology 1
Verb
enucleate
- inflection of enucleare:
- second-person plural present indicative
- second-person plural imperative
Etymology 2
Participle
enucleate f pl
- feminine plural of enucleato
Latin
Etymology
ēnucleātus (“pure, plain”) + -ē
Pronunciation
- (Classical Latin) IPA(key): [eː.nʊ.kɫeˈaː.teː]
- (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): [e.nu.kleˈaː.t̪e]
Adverb
ēnucleātē (not comparable)
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