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| ablation | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal. |  |
| 2. n. (medicine) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. | |
| 3. n. (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as vaporization under heat or chipping. | |
| 4. n. (geology) The removal of a glacier by melting and evaporation; the lowering of a land surface by any of several means, as in wind erosion, mass wasting. | |
