Ablation vs Ablate - What's the difference?
ablation | ablate | Related terms |
(obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal.
(medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
(sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping.
(geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting.
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To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization.
To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature.
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