enucleate

Enucleate, en-ū′kle-āt, v.t. to lay bare, explain: to extract.—n.

"She said if it were her child, she would just enucleate."

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

But with the light of the New Testament and of modern science, we ought to be able to enucleate the true spiritual idea from such descriptions.

Either operation exposes the gland so that the surgeon can enucleate it with his fingernail or blunt scissors.