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Anucleate vs Enucleate - What's the difference?

anucleate | enucleate | Related terms |

Enucleate is a related term of anucleate.



As adjectives the difference between anucleate and enucleate

is that anucleate is which does not have a nucleus while enucleate is enucleated, having no nucleus.

As a verb enucleate is

to remove the nucleus from (a cell).

As a noun enucleate is

a cell which has been enucleated.

anucleate

English

Adjective

(-)
  • (cytology) Which does not have a nucleus.

    • enucleate

    English

    Verb

    (enucleat)
  • (biology) To remove the nucleus from (a cell).
  • (medicine) To remove; especially , to remove or gouge out (an eyeball or tumor).
  • (medicine) To remove something; especially , to remove an eyeball or tumor.

    • Derived terms

    * enucleation

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Enucleated, having no nucleus.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (biology) A cell which has been
  • * {{quote-book, 1973, D.M. Prescott & J.B. Kirkpatrick, chapter=Mass Enucleation of Captured Animal Cells, Methods in Cell Biology, Volume VII citation
    • , passage=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

    * anucleate * denucleate * nucleate ----