English Explanatory Dictionary

ablation

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A carrying or taking away; removal.
  2. The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation.
  3. The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping.
  4. The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion or mass wasting.
  5. The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.

Pronunciation

ə-blā'-shən ăb-lā'-shən /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩/ /æbˈleɪ.ʃn̩/ En-us-ablation.ogg en-ca-ablation.ogg

Word forms

ablation ablations

Etymology

Etymology tree Late Latin ablātiōder. Middle English albacioun English ablation From Late Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) + -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix). Doublet of ablatio. Compare French ablation. By surface analysis, ablat(e) + -ion.

Related words

ablatable ablate ablator

Derived words

ablational ablation study ablative aquablation atheroablation chemoablation cryoablation cycloablation cytoablation electroablation hemiablation immunoablation locoablation lymphoablation myeloablation periablation photoablation postablation preablation radioablation reablation rotablation thermoablation

Translations

Bulgarian: ампутация Catalan: ablació Chinese Mandarin: 切除 Chinese Mandarin: 摘除 Chinese Mandarin: 消融 Chinese Mandarin: 銷蝕 /销蚀 Dutch: ablatie Dutch: erosie Dutch: afsmelting Finnish: amputaatio Finnish: ablaatio French: ablation German: Ablation Hungarian: abláció Italian: ablazione Norwegian Bokmål: ablasjon Norwegian Bokmål: amputasjon Polish: ablacja Portuguese: ablação Romanian: ablațiune Russian: ампута́ция Russian: абля́ция Serbo-Croatian: абла́ција Serbo-Croatian: ablácija Serbo-Croatian: одроњавање Serbo-Croatian: отапање Serbo-Croatian: odronjavanje Serbo-Croatian: otapanje Spanish: ablación
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