ablate

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Fractyl Labs Inc., in Waltham, Mass., is developing a different investigational treatment for diabetes—a water-filled balloon device that ablates, or burns, the lining of the duodenum.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2015

This wavelength is extremely strongly absorbed by the cornea and ablates it in a manner that reshapes the cornea to correct vision defects.

From Textbooks • Aug. 12, 2015

Where the ice flows up against the Transantarctic Mountains, it carries these rocks along with it, and the ice ablates by wind erosion, leaving behind a lag of rock clasts.

From New York Times • Dec. 7, 2010