Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. Medicine To excise, amputate, or otherwise destroy the biological function of (a body tissue, for example).
- v. To remove by erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
- v. To become ablated; undergo ablation.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To take away; remove.
WordNet 3.0
- v. remove an organ or bodily structure
- v. wear away through erosion or vaporization
Etymologies
- Back-formation from ablation. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The base of Orion's heat shield will endure the most heat and will erode away or "ablate" in a controlled fashion - transporting heat away during the descent through the atmosphere.”
“Orion's heat shield, the dish-shaped thermal protection system at the base of the spacecraft, will endure the most heat and will erode, or "ablate," in a controlled fashion, transporting heat away from the crew module during its descent through the atmosphere.”
“Dr. Boothe the excimer laser uses a cool ultraviolet light beam to precisely remove ( "ablate") very tiny bits of tissue from the cornea to reshape it.”
“So very tired, yet we tried ... to ablate the tide.”
“Medtronic has said that its Cardioblate devices received FDA approval to "ablate cardiac tissue" and "ablate soft tissue" during "general surgery" or "cardiac surgery.”
The Wall Street Journal: Surgical-Device Firms Walk Fine Line
“Then they insert devices that use intense cold or heat generated by radio waves to cauterize, or ablate, tissue thought to be responsible for the electrical impulses causing the erratic heartbeat.”
The Washington Post: Atrial fibrillation is easy to find, but evidence on how best to treat it isn't
“Having a great partner to ablate stress daily, and to depend on for her incredible expertise and common sense honed carefully in this area, is clearly a magnificent way to help life be better—thank you, Nancy.”
“Hydra are wonderful experimental animals in that one can ablate stem cells for a particular tissue type, and still get an animal that develops and lives; do the same thing to a vertebrate, for instance knocking out the mesodermal lineage in the embryo, and you get an aborted blob.”
“But as a frustrated neuroscientist, I have long enjoyed this question: If we could surgically or chemically ablate toxic memory, should we?”
“LALA: That's completely different, because there are studies that show that Diprivan may help ablate migraine headaches.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘ablate’.
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medtech
terms found in documentation for implantable medical devices and IVD equip
distal, luer, stopcock, lumen, tortuosity, anneal, flouroscopy, radiopaque, distractor, toeing, tang, endoprosthesis and 173 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
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Russian Doll Words
A Russian Doll word is a word that, when you remove the first and last letters, is either the empty string, or a Russian Doll word. These are all of the 6 or more letter Russian Doll words found in...
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New words
new words or spelling issues
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A to abominator (Chambers)
aa gets over 40 hits
aardvark 49 hits
abbatoir 103 hits
abjure 138 hitsA, A-line, A-list, A-lister, A 1, A-road, A-side, from A to B, from A to Z, A-bomb, A-effect, A level and 254 more...
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Ballardian
All things descriptive from JG
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Verbages
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EN - rare verbs
fornicate, enfranchise, tweet, natter, fetter, devil, cork, bunker, canoe, backstroke, carom, queer and 52 more...
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Not quite love
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Infinite Jest
Words taken from Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace.
prorector, monograph, post-fourier, snuffle, rototremble, creatus, enfilade, subanimalistic, balletic, espadrilles, leonine, cirri and 1153 more...
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azd's Words
adamantine, abatial, ablate, ablative, abrogate, accretive, acromegaly, acrostic, actinism, actinic, acuity, adduce and 968 more...
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Word of the day.
Some days, there will be a word. That word is the word of the day. Other days shall remain wordless. That's just the way things go.
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ADW1
obdurate, obstinate, behest, injunction, enjoin, circumspect, ensconce, discursive, lugubrious, doleful, somber, ken and 2476 more...
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That's right, another list
muck-a-muck, ipse dixit, solipsism, anticlinal, analogical, amoral, alogical, synclinal, disinclined, iconological, studly, flitch and 179 more...
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Reading Random
Got unknown words randomly
delinquency, modicum, dissuade, incendiary, destitute, lachrymose, plight, ruse, empirical, pedantic, demography, giggle and 444 more...
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drseatbelt's Words
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