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What does enucleation mean?

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  1. (surgery) The surgical removal of an intact organ, especially of the eye and of cysts and tumors.
  2. (microbiology) The removal of the nuclear body of a cell.
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The interval which must elapse before an artificial eye can be worn is considerably longer than after enucleation.
The case differs from the enucleation of a gangrenous myoma which involves the death of an inviable fetus.
He is later entitled for an enucleation of the same eye in which a medical impairment of 9 is applicable.
Extubation by the thread and by enucleation has already been mentioned, but these methods are not applicable in every case.
When the enucleation is completed the walls of the capsule are carefully examined for oozing vessels which require ligature.
When performed properly, the superior approach and the more commonly employed frontal method of postmortem enucleation are both nondistorting.

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