1) Cutting out 2) Excision 3) Extirpation 4) French word used in English 5) Operation 6) Surgery 7) Surgical operation 8) Surgical procedure 9) Surgical process 10) Surgical removal procedure
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- surgical removal of a body part or tissue
- the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
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(1) Combined processes (such as sublimation, fusion or melting, evaporation) which remove snow or ice from the surface of a glacier or from a snow-field. Also used to express the quantity lost by these processes. (2) Reduction of the water equivalent of a snow cover by melting, evaporation, wind and avalanches.
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• (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. • (n.) Extirpation. • (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.
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(from the article `cluster`) ...jets that cool them and turn them into clusters. One especially popular and interesting method in which solids are vaporized is by the action of ...
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(from the article `glacier`) The ice sheets lose material by several processes, including surface melting, evaporation, wind erosion (deflation), iceberg calving, and the melting ... This great release of energy quickly destroys most meteoroids, particularly those with relatively high velocities. This destruction is the result ... .....
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In medicine, the removal or destruction of a body part or tissue or its function. Ablation may be performed by surgery, hormones, drugs, radiofrequency, heat, or other methods.
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Ablation of Mercury capsule model. Credit: NASA • Removal of the surface layers of a meteorite during its passage through the atmosphere. • METEORS AND METEORITES • Removal of surface material such as occurs in a combustion chamber, or the controlled degr...
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Noun: In medical terms this means the removal by surgery, radiation or otherwise of dead, diseased or unwanted tissue. Immunosuppressive therapy results in the ablation of one's immune system .
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1. A carrying or taking away; removal. ... 2. <medicine> Extirpation. ... 3. <geology> Wearing away; superficial waste. ... See: tolerate. ... Origin: L. Ablatio, fr. Ablatus p. P. Of auferre to carry away; ab + latus, p. P. Of ferre carry: cf. F. Ablation. ... (11 Mar 1998) ...
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(ab-la´shәn) separation or detachment; extirpation; eradication. removal, especially by cutting with a laser or electrocautery.
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In medicine, the removal or destruction of a body part or tissue or its function. Ablation may be performed by surgery, hormones, drugs, radiofrequency, heat, or other methods.
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In medicine, the removal or destruction of a body part or tissue or its function. Ablation may be performed by surgery, hormones, drugs, radiofrequency, heat, or other methods.
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Ab·la'tion noun [ Latin
ablatio , from
ablatus past participle of
auferre to carry away;
ab +
latus , past participle of
ferre carry: confer French
ablation . See
Tolerate .]
1. A carrying or taking away; removal.
Jer. Taylor....
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Cutting away tissue or abnormal growth.
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Ablation: Removal or excision. Ablation is usually carried out surgically. For example, surgical removal of the thyroid gland (a total thyroidectomy) is ablation of the thyroid. The word ablation comes from the Latin ablatum meaning to carry away. Historically, the word ablation once had mainly a general meaning so that in 1671 the ablation (remova...
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Eradication or removal of tissues by surgery, laser, or freezing radiotherapy. Narrower term(s): Endometrial Ablation
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A process by where the atmosphere melts away and removes the surface material of an incoming meteorite.
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ablation 1. Surgical excision, removal, or amputation of a body part or tissue. 2. The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced; wearing or wasting away. 3. In aerospace: 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.
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All processes by which snow and ice are lost from a glacier, floating ice, or snow cover; or the amount which is melted. These processes include melting, evaporation, (sublimation), wind erosion, and calving. Synonym wastage.
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extirpation noun surgical removal of a body part or tissue
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As applied to glacier ice, the process by which ice below the snow line is wasted by evaporation and melting.
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elimination or removal. Ablation also refers to a procedure that eliminates extra electrical pathways within the heart that cause fast or irregular heart rhythms.
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Elimination or removal.
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the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers
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