enucleate

Example Sentences

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You take that cell and fuse it to the enucleated egg, activate it — which starts it growing — and transfer it to a surrogate mother.

From Nature

The third and most difficult stage in the procedure involves the insertion of the donor-cell nucleus into the enucleated egg.

From Scientific American

Instead of enucleating them, they kept them intact and inserted the adult cell’s nucleus alongside the original one.

From Economist

Tyler's eye would then have to be enucleated.

From Seattle Times

I suspect that this error must at first have arisen from some confusion between to eliminate and to enucleate.

From Project Gutenberg