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enucleation

[ih-noo-klee-ay-shuhn, -nyoo-] / ɪˌnu kliˈeɪ ʃən, -ˌnju- /




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Some of the older survivors had facial abnormalities from radiation or enucleation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 6, 2025

Ritchie: On the day we made Dolly, I would have done the enucleation, and she would have done the fusion.

From Nature ● Jun. 28, 2016

Dr. Shields didn't feel enucleation was not the route to go.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 3, 2011

He was in a state of acute mania, and the explanation offered was that as a "grinder" before examination he had been diligently studying the surgery of the eye, and particularly that relating to enucleation.

From Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine by Walter L. (Walter Lytle) Pyle

In deep penetrating wounds of the eye there is a great tendency to the formation of a fungous growth, which often necessitates the enucleation of the whole eyeball.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry


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