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n. Surgical excision or amputation of a body part or tissue.

n. The erosive processes by which a glacier is reduced.

n. Aerospace The dissipation of heat generated by atmospheric friction, especially in the atmospheric reentry of a spacecraft or missile, by means of a melting heat shield.

n. Aerospace The reduction or removal of heat-protective surface material by aerodynamic friction, as from a heat shield.

n. A carrying or taking away; removal.

n. Extirpation.

n. Wearing away; superficial waste.

n. A carrying or taking away; removal; suppression.

n. In medicine, the taking from the body by mechanical means of anything hurtful, as a diseased limb, a tumor, a foreign body, pus, or excrement.

n. In chem., the removal of whatever is finished or no longer necessary.

n. In geology, the wearing away or waste of a glacier by melting or evaporation.

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n. the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers

n. surgical removal of a body part or tissue

"Radiofrequency ablation is a procedure in which heat is used to treat certain kinds of lesions."

erosion    eating away    wearing    wearing away    eroding   

removal    extirpation   

inactivation    desorption    biodistribution    convection    denervation    excision    thyroxine    oxime    Lackawanna    deletion