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单词 ablation
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Definition of ablation in English:

ablation

noun əˈbleɪʃ(ə)nəˈbleɪʃən
mass noun
  • 1The surgical removal of body tissue.

    (人体组织的)切除

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Endometrial ablation is a procedure that offers an effective surgical treatment option for women with menorrhagia who want to avoid hysterectomy.
    • Physicians should discuss risks and benefits of all options, including endometrial ablation and hysterectomy, with each patient.
    • All seven patients with diverticula of the CS who were not treated with catheter or surgical ablation eventually died.
    • Radiofrequency ablation is the targeted cautery of cardiac tissue by local application of radiofrequency energy.
    • Most patients having laser ciliary body ablation need to continue drug treatment.
    • Endometrial ablation is the first surgical advance in the treatment of menorrhagia since hysterectomy.
    • Many surgeons, who require precision in their tissue ablation, prefer the pulsed mode of operation.
    • Treatment for menorrhagia may include hormone therapy, endometrial curettage, endometrial ablation, or hysterectomy.
    • Treatment by surgical excision or physical ablation of the excess tissue may improve cosmetic appearance.
    • With newer and safer techniques available, hysteroscopic resection procedures for endometrial ablation are being performed less frequently.
  • 2The removal of snow and ice from a glacier or iceberg by melting or evaporation.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Searches were delayed until June, when snow ablation was 90% complete.
    • Thermodynamic processes control the growth and ablation of ice.
    • It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
    • Conduction of heat to the glacier surface from the air and condensation of water vapour are important variables causing ablation.
    • A glacier forms whenever the accumulation of snow/ice exceeds ablation over a sustained period of time.
    1. 2.1 The erosion of rock, typically by wind action.
      (岩石的)侵蚀(尤指风化)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Potassic minerals were degassed with an argon laser probe using step heating or direct ablation of grains on thin rock sections.
      • The stream loads will likely experience almost continual aggradation and ablation.
      • It is on actively moving glacier ice covered by rock debris called ablation or surface moraine.
      • Some slopes are steep and sharply incise ancient surfaces of ablation, as is the case south of PA2 and PA4.
    2. 2.2 The loss of surface material from a spacecraft or meteorite through evaporation or melting caused by friction with the atmosphere.
      (飞行器壳体材料或陨星在与大气摩擦时由于熔化或蒸发而导致的)烧蚀
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Deceleration of meteorites begins high in the atmosphere where the surface of the incoming body heats up to incandescence causing melting and ablation.
      • This thing came screaming down through the Martian atmosphere and it underwent some ablation.
      • The most effective thermal protection method for single re-entry vehicles was ablation.

Derivatives

  • ablate

  • verb abˈleɪtəˈbleɪt
    [with object]
    • 1Remove (body tissue) surgically.

      therapeutic intervention to ablate existing cancer cells
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The laser beam zaps a pinhead-sized area on the target, ablating or vaporizing it.
      • Thus, if continental ice sheets formed at all, they would have been ablated as the ice age got into high gear.
      • Drying winds slowly ablate away the ice from the material, leaving them soft and dry, although still very cold, by the next day.
      • drying winds slowly ablate away the ice
      • the laser beam can ablate solid rock from seven metres away
    • 2Gradually remove material from or erode (a surface or object) by melting, evaporation, frictional action, etc., or erode (material) in this way.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense 'taking away, removal'): from late Latin ablatio(n-), from Latin ablat- 'taken away', from ab- 'away' + lat- 'carried' (from the verb ferre).

Rhymes

aeration, agnation, Alsatian, Amerasian, Asian, aviation, cetacean, citation, conation, creation, Croatian, counterdemonstration, counterproliferation, crustacean, curation, Dalmatian, delation, dilation, donation, duration, elation, fixation, Galatian, geolocation, glocalization, gyration, Haitian, halation, Horatian, ideation, illation, lavation, legation, libation, location, lunation, mutation, natation, nation, negation, notation, nutation, oblation, oration, ovation, potation, relation, rogation, rotation, Sarmatian, sedation, Serbo-Croatian, station, staycation, taxation, Thracian, vacation, vexation, vocation, zonation

Definition of ablation in US English:

ablation

nounəˈbleɪʃənəˈblāSHən
  • 1The surgical removal of body tissue.

    (人体组织的)切除

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Many surgeons, who require precision in their tissue ablation, prefer the pulsed mode of operation.
    • With newer and safer techniques available, hysteroscopic resection procedures for endometrial ablation are being performed less frequently.
    • Physicians should discuss risks and benefits of all options, including endometrial ablation and hysterectomy, with each patient.
    • Radiofrequency ablation is the targeted cautery of cardiac tissue by local application of radiofrequency energy.
    • Endometrial ablation is a procedure that offers an effective surgical treatment option for women with menorrhagia who want to avoid hysterectomy.
    • Treatment for menorrhagia may include hormone therapy, endometrial curettage, endometrial ablation, or hysterectomy.
    • Endometrial ablation is the first surgical advance in the treatment of menorrhagia since hysterectomy.
    • Most patients having laser ciliary body ablation need to continue drug treatment.
    • Treatment by surgical excision or physical ablation of the excess tissue may improve cosmetic appearance.
    • All seven patients with diverticula of the CS who were not treated with catheter or surgical ablation eventually died.
  • 2The removal of snow and ice by melting or evaporation, typically from a glacier or iceberg.

    (尤指冰河或冰山的)冰雪消融

    Example sentencesExamples
    • A glacier forms whenever the accumulation of snow/ice exceeds ablation over a sustained period of time.
    • It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
    • Conduction of heat to the glacier surface from the air and condensation of water vapour are important variables causing ablation.
    • Thermodynamic processes control the growth and ablation of ice.
    • Searches were delayed until June, when snow ablation was 90% complete.
    1. 2.1 The erosion of rock, typically by wind action.
      (岩石的)侵蚀(尤指风化)
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Some slopes are steep and sharply incise ancient surfaces of ablation, as is the case south of PA2 and PA4.
      • The stream loads will likely experience almost continual aggradation and ablation.
      • Potassic minerals were degassed with an argon laser probe using step heating or direct ablation of grains on thin rock sections.
      • It is on actively moving glacier ice covered by rock debris called ablation or surface moraine.
    2. 2.2 The loss of surface material from a spacecraft or meteorite through evaporation or melting caused by friction with the atmosphere.
      (飞行器壳体材料或陨星在与大气摩擦时由于熔化或蒸发而导致的)烧蚀
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Deceleration of meteorites begins high in the atmosphere where the surface of the incoming body heats up to incandescence causing melting and ablation.
      • This thing came screaming down through the Martian atmosphere and it underwent some ablation.
      • The most effective thermal protection method for single re-entry vehicles was ablation.

Origin

Late Middle English (in the general sense ‘taking away, removal’): from late Latin ablatio(n-), from Latin ablat- ‘taken away’, from ab- ‘away’ + lat- ‘carried’ (from the verb ferre).

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