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

But some of those de-orbited satellites don’t seem to fully ablate or burn up.

From Salon • Apr. 12, 2025

“Those antisense oligonucleotides are going to ablate full-length huntingtin, but they are not going to affect this mini version of huntingtin,” he says.

From Nature • May 29, 2018

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

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