Enucleation
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Enucleation may refer to:
- Enucleation (surgery), the removal of a mass without cutting into or dissecting it
- Enucleation of the eye, removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact
- Self-enucleation, self-inflicted removal of the eye
- Enucleation of the eye, removal of the eye that leaves the eye muscles and remaining orbital contents intact
- Enucleation (microbiology), removing the nucleus of a cell and replacing it with a different nucleus