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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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Any impairment for disfigurement caused by enucleation is included in the impairment rating.
When the enucleation is completed the walls of the capsule are carefully examined for oozing vessels which require ligature.
Extubation by the thread and by enucleation has already been mentioned, but these methods are not applicable in every case.
It is a vintage time for those of us who like our theatre with multiple murders, suicides and the occasional enucleation.
He is later entitled for an enucleation of the same eye in which a medical impairment of 9 is applicable.
The case differs from the enucleation of a gangrenous myoma which involves the death of an inviable fetus.

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