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Enucleation   Listen
noun
Enucleation  n.  The act of enucleating; elucidation; exposition. "Neither sir, nor water, nor food, seem directly to contribute anything to the enucleation of this disease."






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"Enucleation" Quotes from Famous Books



... away of the waste products of such an active nutrition, that it is hard to think they will become inadequate in glaucoma until there has been a marked decrease from their normal capacity. Priestley Smith has pointed out that the glaucomatous eye softens more slowly than the normal eye after enucleation, in spite of the fact that a greater force is operating to drive fluid out of the eye. In his recent tonometric studies Schoenberg noted that under manipulation the glaucomatous eye softened more slowly than the normal eye; and suggests this ...
— Glaucoma - A Symposium Presented at a Meeting of the Chicago - Ophthalmological Society, November 17, 1913 • Various



Words linked to "Enucleation" :   surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, enucleate, operation



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