ablateverb [ T ]
/əˈbleɪt//əˈbleɪt/specialized medical to remove body tissue surgically (= by a medical operation):
The aim of the operation is to ablate the diseased bowel while preserving normal function.
specialized geology, physics to remove surface material from a rock, a glacier (= mass of ice), etc. by the action of wind, melting, or friction:
The two comets are entirely ablated before they hit the earth's surface.
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- Three-dimensional CT models give a map that helps physicians track where they need to ablate tissue.
- The cardiologist uses the tip of a special heated wire to "ablate", or destroy, a small area of tissue that is causing the abnormal heart rhythm.
- Radiosurgery devices can ablate otherwise untreatable tumors.
- Most meteoritic material, by the time it reaches the Earth's surface, has been reduced to dust or to spherules of ablated material in its passage through the atmosphere.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Removing and extracting
- clear the decks idiom
- cream sth/sb off
- descale
- dislodge
- drainage
- extract
- gouge
- milk
- pull (sb/sth) out
- pull a gun, knife, etc. on sb idiom
- pump
- removable
- remove
- remover
- root
- rout
- scratch
- siphon
- syphon
- take sth away
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