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ablation

noun
🔊/əˈbleɪʃn/
🔊/əˈbleɪʃn/
[uncountable]
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  1. (medical医学) the use of surgery to remove body tissue
    • to undergo an ablation procedure进行消融手术
  2. (geology地质学) the loss of material from a large mass of ice, snow or rock as a result of the action of the sun, wind or rain（冰、雪的）消融；冰消作用；（岩石的）磨蚀
    3. Word Originlate 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).