ablated
Gradually worn off
Ablated is the past tense of ablate, meaning to remove or wear away material from a surface.
The term appears most often in technical contexts: surgeons ablate tissue, spacecraft heat shields ablate during reentry, and glaciers ablate through melting and evaporation.
The tumor was successfully ablated with a laser.
Relating to operations
- laserConcentrated light device
- tissueDisposable soft paper
- removalAct of taking away
- excisionCutting out of tissue
vaporization · resection · cauterization · radiofrequency · thermal · catheter · electrosurgery · endometrial
Applied surface covering
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- etchingAcid-incised metal print
- vaporizationConversion to gas
- thermalPertaining to warmth
charring · burning · destruction · wear · degradation · disintegration · evaporation · heat shield
surgical
Relating to operations
excision · vaporization · resection · cauterization · radiofrequency · thermal · catheter · electrosurgery · endometrial · myocardial
coating
Applied surface covering
- surfaceOutermost boundary layer
- etchingAcid-incised metal print
- vaporizationConversion to gas
thermal · charring · burning · destruction · wear · degradation · disintegration · evaporation · heat shield · reentry
glacier
Slow-moving ice mass
erosion · landform · cirque · fjord · retreat · sediment · bedrock · glacial · valley · till
- ablative materialsSubstances that erode protectively