Ablation: alternatives and connections

The act of weakening, or reducing strength.

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The operation, art, or practice of cutting for stone in the bladder.

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Ovariotomy.

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of Erode

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The act or operation of eroding or eating away.

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The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral.

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The art of healing by manual operation; that branch of medical science which treats of manual operations for the healing of diseases or injuries of t…

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of Wear

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The act of excising or cutting out or off; extirpation; destruction.

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The act of extirpating or rooting out, or the state of being extirpated; eradication; excision; total destruction; as, the extirpation of weeds from…

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