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Enucleated vs Enucleate - What's the difference?

enucleated | enucleate |

As verbs the difference between enucleated and enucleate

is that enucleated is past tense of enucleate while enucleate is to remove the nucleus from (a cell).

As an adjective enucleate is

enucleated, having no nucleus.

As a noun enucleate is

a cell which has been enucleated.

enucleated

English

Verb

(head)
  • (enucleate)

  • 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.}}

    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.}}