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
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
