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What does ablate mean?

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  1. (transitive) To remove or decrease something by cutting, erosion, melting, evaporation, or vaporization. [Late 15th century.]
  2. (intransitive) To undergo ablation; to become melted or evaporated and removed at a high temperature. [Mid 20th century.]
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The Boeing approach uses a high-power xenon flash lamp to ablate the paint so it can be removed from the aircraft.
Particularly in case of cardiac arrhythmias millimetre precision is crucial because the physician has to locate and ablate cells which cause arrhythmias in the ventricle or in the atrium.
The treatment of choice is early surgical removal with intensive chemotherapy and radiation therapy to ablate residual microscopic disease.
To map the location of this locus and ablate it requires highly specialized equipment involving massive magnets.
The currently accepted strategy for ablating is to ablate around all four pulmonary veins.
Recently, Dr. Perreault and his team showed that T lymphocytes could be used to selectively ablate tumor cells in an animal model, thereby contributing greatly to improve the prospects for the treatment of cancer.

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