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ablation

[a-blay-shuhn] / æˈbleɪ ʃən /




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The 29-year-old's ablation procedure - a minimally invasive operation to correct irregular heart rhythms - took place at Spire Manchester Hospital on Tuesday morning.

From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2026

A snowline marks the boundary between a glacier's accumulation zone, where snow builds up and adds mass, and its ablation zone, where melting removes snow and ice.

From Science Daily ● Jun. 12, 2026

The company didn’t detail the investments but said they further reinforce the momentum of its cardiac ablation business.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 3, 2026

The anticoagulant drugs and cardiac ablation procedures for treating atrial fibrillation aren’t without complication, so large studies are trying to determine if the additional arrhythmias found by devices like Zio are truly stroke threats.

From Barron's ● Nov. 5, 2025

Like its Soviet predecessors, the Viking landing maneuver involved an ablation shield, a parachute and retro-rockets.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

Thirteen years passed between his first and second ablations, and the second was 12 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 13, 2024

He discovered he had an irregular heartbeat as a high school freshman and had two cardiac ablations before finishing his football and basketball careers at Lincoln High in Gahanna, Ohio, a suburb of Columbus.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 5, 2021

Although doctors treat most patients with such scarring with invasive ablations, there are always some in whom the treatment fails.

From New York Times ● Dec. 13, 2017

He needed a pacemaker, and he’s undergone three ablations for atrial fibrillation.

From Washington Times ● May 7, 2016

As we came down to the lake in the morning to perform our ablations, we saw a fine deer on the opposite shore, feeding upon the pond lilies that grew along in the shallow water.

From Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod by S. H. (Samuel H.) Hammond




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