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noun

Ablation n.

A carrying or taking away; removal.

(Med.) Extirpation.

(Med.) Removing or destroying of a body tissue, especially by a surgical procedure.

(Geol.) Wearing away; superficial waste, as of glacial ice or snow.

(Aerospace) Wearing away of the outer layers of a protective shield or surface by the heat and aerodynamic forces caused by flying through the atmosphere at hypersonic speed, as during reentry from space; as, ablation of the heat shield during reentry.

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Etymology of 'Ablation'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ablation" Quotes from Famous Books

... vaginal portion of the womb,[89] become sensitive to voluptuous contacts. Deprived of the penis the ability of a man to experience specifically sexual sensations becomes very limited indeed. But the loss of the clitoris or of any other structure involves no correspondingly serious disability on women. Ablation of the clitoris for sexual hyperaesthesia has for this reason been abandoned, except under special circumstances. The members of the Russian Skoptzy sect habitually amputate the clitoris, nymphae, and breasts, yet many ...

— Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 (of 6) • Havelock Ellis

... eternal and immutable essence to be, and such as is much honoured intellect, to which Aristotle having ascended, thought he had discovered the first principle. For what can be wanting to that which perfectly comprehends in itself its own plenitudes (oleromata), and of which neither addition nor ablation changes any thing belonging to it? Or is not this also, one and many, whole and parts, containing in itself, things first, middle, and last? The subordinate plenitudes also stand in need of the more excellent, and the ...

— Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato • Thomas Taylor

... has plainly been derived in situ from the underlying rock. It represents the more insoluble residue after water and acids have done their work. Each year there must be a very slow sinking of the surface, but the ablation is infinitesimal. ...

— The Birth-Time of the World and Other Scientific Essays • J. (John) Joly

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