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  • noun Plural form of ablation.

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Examples

  • This system will enable future applications beyond biopsy, such as ablations and the delivery of other minimally invasive therapies.

    The Earth Times Online Newspaper 2010

  • Having had a normal drug free childbirth, and one on pitocin with no pain killers, I am here to tell you that endometrial ablations are the worst pain I have ever felt.

    A man experiencing childbirth? « Dating Jesus 2009

  • Medtronic hasn't announced pricing, but current catheter ablations involve insurance payments of about $25,000 to hospitals and about $2,000 to doctors.

    Fix for a Faulty Heartbeat Thomas M. Burton 2010

  • Medtronic hasn't announced pricing, but current catheter ablations involve insurance payments of about $25,000 to hospitals and about $2,000 to doctors.

    Fix for a Faulty Heartbeat Thomas M. Burton 2010

  • Medtronic hasn't announced pricing, but current catheter ablations involve insurance payments of about $25,000 to hospitals and about $2,000 to doctors.

    Fix for a Faulty Heartbeat Thomas M. Burton 2010

  • Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and ablations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine attar.

    Ash Wednesday . . . Old School Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • Then shalt thou be pleased with the sacrifice of righteousness, with the burnt-offerings and ablations: then shall they offer young bullocks upon thine attar.

    Archive 2008-02-01 Fr Timothy Matkin 2008

  • The first exploder to make his ablations in these parks was indeed that lucky mortal which the monster trial showed on its first day out.

    Finnegans Wake 2006

  • VWD may result in miscarriage and unnecessary surgery, including D&C, uterine ablations, and hysterectomy at a young age.

    OUR BODIES, OURSELVES The Boston Women’s Health Book Collective 2005

  • Notwithstanding (most souereigne Prince) certaine other things we haue to propound vnto your Grace, in the name and behalfe of our saide Master and Order, by way of complaint, namely, that at certaine times past, and especially within the space of x. yeeres last expired, his subiects and marchants haue sustained sundry damages and ablations of their goods, by diuers subiects and inhabitants of your realme of

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

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