🇰🇷Korean Source WordCode: KO

절제술

Native Script:한국어 한글

Pronunciation / Transliteration: jeoljesul

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Ablation/əˈbleɪ.ʃən/
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🇰🇷 Example Sentence in Korean:

"심장 부정맥을 치료하기 위해 고주파 절제술을 시행했습니다."

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2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The removal of human tissue, a part of a body, or a tumor by surgical means, radiofrequency, or laser.

    "The cardiologist performed a catheter ablation to treat the patient's irregular heart rhythm."
  2. 2

    The melting, evaporation, or erosion of snow or ice from a glacier or ice sheet, or the erosion of a spacecraft heat shield during atmospheric entry.

    "Climate researchers closely monitor the annual rate of glacial ablation in the Arctic."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from the Latin 'ablatio', meaning 'a taking away', from 'ablatus', the past participle of 'auferre' (to carry away, from 'ab-' away + 'ferre' to bring). Originally entering Middle English via Old French and medieval medical Latin in a surgical context, the term later expanded in the 19th and 20th centuries to geological, glaciological, and advanced technological sciences to denote the removal of material from the surface of an object or landscape.

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