Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard synthetic yttrium aluminum garnet used in laser technology and as a gemstone.
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- initialism
Yttrium aluminium garnet , a synthetic material used inlasers and formerly as an artificialgemstone .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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These lasers include nd: YAG lasers and diode lasers.
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At the Centennial branch, Alison Baird (that's her reading in the picture at right) and I were in a large multi-purpose room packed with more than 100 teens, members of an incredibly popular after-school library group (YAG, it's called -- Youth Action Group, if I remember correctly).
Toronto Reading: Centennial Branch ewillett 2008
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If there are a few that stand out, or to decrease the overall number, I use a YAG or ruby laser the kinds that target pigment to get rid of them.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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At Mount Sinai we did an in vivo study to see if pigment lasers Q-switched Nd:YAG could change the DNA or cause mutations in skin cells.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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There are fractional erbium:YAG lasers the type I use in my office and fractional CO2 lasers, which are much more intense.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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A pigment-specific laser such as Nd:YAG can get rid of sunspots and brown spots on the backs of the hands.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Green ink responds only to the ruby laser, for example, and red responds only to the Nd:YAG.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Old-school blue and black inks are the easiest to remove because pigment-specific lasers, such as the ruby and YAG, target those dark colors successfully.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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Dermabrasion, a technique to vaporize the skin by way of electrocautery or ablative lasers such as CO2 or erbium: YAG lasers, can remove raised scars.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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An exception to this rule: certain birthmarks around the eye and on the back, called “the nevus of Ito and Ota” respectively, are more common in darker skin types and are treated with the Nd:YAG laser.
Simple Skin Beauty Ellen Marmur 2009
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