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
That causes some of the ice to ablate into gas.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2023
“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
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.
