[as if ad. L. *ēnucleātiōn-em, f. ēnucleāre: see prec. Cf. Fr. énucleation.]
1. The action of enucleating, or getting out the ‘kernel’ of a matter; unfolding, explanation.
1650. S. Clarke, Eccl. Hist., I. (1654), 326. To which they added an enucleation of hard Texts.
1686. Goad, Celest. Bodies, I. ix. 27. I say therefore, toward the Enucleation of the Question [etc.].
1796. Pegge, Anonym., VIII. lxxxiii. (1809), 382. Another enucleation of this difficult ecclesiastical term.
1840. Blackw. Mag., XLVIII. 274/1. The enucleation of separate parts of that which his ambitious intellect yearned towards the production of as a whole.
1862. F. Hall, Hindu Canons of Dramaturgy (1865), 9. Its writer rarely propounds for scholiastic enucleation such an enigma as [etc.].
2. Surg. ‘The shelling out of a tumour, or a structure, or a part, from its capsule or enclosing substance’ (Syd. Soc. Lex.).
1874. Roosa, Dis. Ear, 107. Sebaceous tumours should be removed by enucleation.
1876. J. S. Bristowe, Th. & Pract. Med. (ed. 2), 53. They are … capable of pretty easy enucleation from the tissues in which they are imbedded.
