ablate
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"Magnetic bioactive nanocomposites are very promising for bone cancer therapy because they can simultaneously ablate tumors through magnetic hyperthermia and support new bone growth," said Dr. Ângela Andrade, lead author of the study.
From Science Daily ● Jan. 7, 2026
Some space agencies and private companies have begun designing their craft to ablate — break apart and burn up — in the atmosphere at the end of their life, an approach called “design for demise.”
From Salon ● Apr. 12, 2025
Where surgery is inappropriate, radiation therapy can be used to reduce the size of a tumor or ablate portions of the adrenal cortex.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 19, 2013
For example, standard laboratory mice “don't develop liver cirrhosis even after you ablate the liver many times”, says DePinho.
From Nature ● Oct. 12, 2011
That might, which was so great that to ablate it the earth had to bear new races, was based on two things, citizenship and the family.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar
Instead, plasticity appears to enable tumour maintenance once Lgr5+ cells have been ablated, although it is not able to fuel tumour growth as efficiently.
From Nature ● Mar. 28, 2017
The top layer of the cornea is surgically peeled back and the underlying tissue ablated by multiple bursts of finely controlled ultraviolet radiation produced by an excimer laser.
From Textbooks ● Aug. 12, 2015
In a related study, Arikawa and his team ablated or painted the photoreceptors on pregnant females' abdomens and released the butterflies into a cage with a potted lemon tree.
From Scientific American ● Aug. 20, 2012
Sidewise he looked at the ruin of the vase, on which Daughters of Heaven and an ablated dynasty may have warmed their eyes.
From The Paliser case by Saltus, Edgar
Abruptly, the categories of the infinite, the infant gods, shapes divine and demoniac, the entire phantasmagoria of metempsychosis, seemed really absorbed and Brahm himself ablated.
From The Lords of the Ghostland A History of the Ideal by Saltus, Edgar
In addition, follow-up studies should allow astronomers to probe the geology of these "ablating" worlds and better understand how such planets form and evolve—perhaps even shedding light on the oddities within our own solar system.
From Scientific American ● Dec. 23, 2019
The ablating nose cone is the design of the present.
From Time Magazine Archive
The air's temperature soars to 14,000� F., and it whams into samples of ablating material that behave as if they were part of a real nose cone.
From Time Magazine Archive
