Enucleated vs Enucleates - What's the difference?
enucleated | enucleates |
(enucleate)
(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.
Enucleated, having no nucleus.
(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
, 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.}}
As verbs the difference between enucleated and enucleates
is that enucleated is past tense of enucleate while enucleates is third-person singular of enucleate.As a noun enucleates is
plural of enucleate.enucleated
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(head)enucleate
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(enucleat)Derived terms
* enucleationAdjective
(-)Noun
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