| 单词 | ablate |
| 释义 | ablate (once / 20628 pages) v When you ablate something, you wear it away by rubbing or some other method. In medicine, doctors sometimes need to ablate a patient's skin to help it heal. The verb ablate is often used in many different sciences — in each case, it has a slightly different sense, although its basic meaning is always to erode or otherwise wear away a substance. One way for physicians to treat heart disease is to ablate the inside of an artery using a tiny drill-like tool, and geologists study the way processes like evaporation and erosion can ablate — or remove the surface of — a glacier. The Latin root word is ablationem, "a taking away." WORD FAMILYablate: ablated, ablating, ablation, ablative+/ablation: ablations/ablative: ablatives USAGE EXAMPLES“Thus, they need to be sure that what they have identified or ablated in atherosclerosis are just senescent cells.” Science Magazine(Oct 27, 2016) SonaCare has two focused ultrasound devices on the market, one to treat diseased cells in soft tissue and another to ablate prostate tissue. Reuters(Mar 14, 2016) Early blood pressure therapies included using thiocyanate and ablating parts of the sympathetic nervous system in the chest. US News(Jan 11, 2016) 1v wear away through erosion or vaporization Hyper wear, wear down, wear off, wear out, wear thin deteriorate through use or stress 2v remove an organ or bodily structure Hyper remove, take, take away, withdraw remove something concrete, as by lifting, pushing, or taking off, or remove something abstract |
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