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What does enucleation mean?

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Noun
  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.
Any impairment for disfigurement caused by enucleation is included in the impairment rating.
Extubation by the thread and by enucleation has already been mentioned, but these methods are not applicable in every case.
He is later entitled for an enucleation of the same eye in which a medical impairment of 9 is applicable.
The advantage of this operation over the other substitutes for simple enucleation is that it can be used after any enucleation.
Vital enucleation, apexification, gangrene and resorption are further areas of treatment mentioned in the literature.

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