Ablation

What do we mean by ablation?

Surgical excision or amputation of a body part or tissue. noun

The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced. noun

The dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction, especially in the atmospheric reentry of a spacecraft or missile, by means of a melting heat shield. noun

The reduction or removal of heat-protective surface material by aerodynamic friction, as from a heat shield. noun

A carrying or taking away; removal; suppression. noun

In medicine, the taking from the body by mechanical means of anything hurtful, as a diseased limb, a tumor, a foreign body, pus, or excrement. noun

In chem., the removal of whatever is finished or no longer necessary. noun

In geology, the wearing away or waste of a glacier by melting or evaporation. noun

A carrying or taking away; removal. noun

Extirpation. noun

Wearing away; superficial waste. noun

The erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers noun

Surgical removal of a body part or tissue noun

A carrying or taking away; removal.

The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.

The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.

The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.

The depletion of surface snow and ice by melting and evaporation.

A distressed state of mind one usually finds themselves in when undergoing an intense interrogation. Urban Dictionary

The medical term meaning to remove. Urban Dictionary

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Adjectives that are often used to describe ablation:
laser, endometrial, surgical, percutaneous, bilateral, successful, complete, total, pituitary, selective, thermal, renal, unilateral, cortical, ovarian, guided, partial, frontal, genetic, endocrine, septal, laparoscopic, pulsed, endoscopic, cryosurgical, corneal, induced, slow, rotational, thyroid, electrical, transurethral, visual, radical, hippocampal, occipital, restricted, retinal, cerebellar, experimental, nodal, customized, functional, eyestalk, circumferential, left, extensive, cardiac, temporal, excimer, net, hormonal, endocardial, focal, linear, subsequent, atrioventricular, effective, intraoperative, myocardial, hepatic, hysteroscopic, interstitial, superficial, controlled, uterosacral, peripheral, neural, precise, decentered, epicardial, prefrontal, incomplete, radioactive, regional, transluminal, cerebral, hyperopic, sympathetic, subtotal, coronary, mediated, based, uterine, pulmonary, neonatal, mucosal, simultaneous, myopic.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective ablation:
therapy, model, process, regions, icpms, technique, method, plume, behavior, spark, experiments.

Consonant match to ablation:
oblation.

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