# ablation
## English
### Etymology

From Late Middle English ablacioun (“removal”), from Late Latin ablātiō (“a taking away”), from auferō (“to take away, carry off, withdraw, remove”) +‎ -tiō (“-tion”, nominal suffix); equivalent to ablate +‎ -ion. Doublet of ablatio. Compare French ablation.

### Pronunciation

* enPR: ə-blā'-shən, ăb-lā'-shən IPA: /əˈbleɪ.ʃn̩/, /æbˈleɪ.ʃn̩/
* Audio (US):(file)
* Audio (Canada):(file)
* Rhymes: -eɪʃən

### Noun

ablation (countable and uncountable, plural ablations)
* (obsolete) A carrying or taking away; removal. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
* (surgery) The surgical removal of a body part, an organ, or especially a tumor; the removal of an organ function; amputation. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.]
* (sciences) The progressive removal of material by any of a variety of processes such as melting or vaporization under heat or chipping. [Mid 20th century.]
    Hyponym: constitutive ablation
** (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 or mass wasting. [from 20th c.]
** (meteorology) The depletion of surface snow and ice from a spacecraft or meteorite through melting and evaporation caused by aerodynamic heating.

#### Derived terms

* ablational
* ablative
* aquablation
* atheroablation
* chemoablation
* cryoablation
* cycloablation
* cytoablation
* electroablation
* hemiablation
* immunoablation
* locoablation
* lymphoablation
* myeloablation
* periablation
* photoablation
* postablation
* preablation
* radioablation
* reablation
* rotablation
* thermoablation

#### Related terms

* ablatable
* ablate
* ablator

#### Translations

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### References

* “ablation”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
* “ablation”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
* 1 2 3 4 Lesley Brown, editor-in-chief, William R. Trumble and Angus Stevenson, editors (2002), “ablation”, in The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles, 5th edition, Oxford, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 5.

### Further reading

* Ablation in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

## Danish
### Noun

ablation c (singular definite ablationen, plural indefinite ablationer)
* (geology, medicine) ablation

#### Declension
### Further reading

* “ablation” in Den Danske Ordbog

## French
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

ablation f (plural ablations)
* the often forceful removal (physical or otherwise) or abolition of something
** 2008 April 25, Martine Chouinard, “Brebis égarée”, in Le Devoir‎, archived from the original on 19 June 2008:[…] se contentant d’annoncer que l’ablation des nouvelles permettra de voguer vers «la production d’émissions culturelles et de divertissement de qualité».merely announcing that the elimination of news programming [on tv channel TQS] will allow it to focus on "the production of quality entertainment and cultural programming"
* (medicine) ablation
* (sciences) ablation

#### Descendants

* → Dutch: ablatie

### Further reading

* “ablation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.