What's the difference between ablation and oblation?

Ablation


Definition:

  • (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal.
  • (n.) Extirpation.
  • (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Thin layers of carbon (20 microns) and vacuoles (30 microns) suggested a large temperature gradient along the tissue ablation front.
  • (2) It has a poor prognosis prior to the current combined treatment of surgical ablation, radiation to the surgical field, and chemotherapy for microscopic metastases.
  • (3) Future research and clinical evaluations should focus on the components of the learning and memory processes when the ramifications of temporal lobe ablations on cognitive function are studied.
  • (4) In blood, ablation of porcine aorta was feasible at a distance of 3 mm.
  • (5) RF ablation appears to be a safe and effective therapeutic option for drug-resistant ectopic atrial tachycardia and may be the preferred first-line therapy for those patients with depressed ventricular function.
  • (6) Certain untoward effects associated with the use of direct-current electrical catheter ablation of the ventricular endomyocardium have been noted.
  • (7) SMC ablation caused an increase of aggressive reactions to combined stimulation, revealed in the form of tendency for all animals.
  • (8) There was no significant difference in the wound-healing rate, but at 36 hours there was a reduction in wound-healing rate of the excimer ablated corneas.
  • (9) Sixteen patients with an accessory pathway were studied (eight surgical ablations, eight catheter ablations with radiofrequency energy).
  • (10) This report details the successful catheter ablation of a left free wall accessory pathway with radiofrequency energy.
  • (11) The absence of this facilitative influence following otocyst ablation becomes apparent just at the time synapses would normally be formed between the the primary auditory afferents and the brain stem auditory neurons.
  • (12) We compared the ablative efficiency on canine colonic mucosa of the THC:YAG laser with the clinically employed cw Nd:YAG laser.
  • (13) Their effect of vaporizing and ablating (photodecomposing) thrombi and their thermal injuring effect on adjacent tissues were compared and assessed in order to select optimal laser with little thermal injuring and more rapid vaporizing or ablating thrombi effect for laser angioplasty.
  • (14) The value of serum thyroglobulin assay employing a kit manufactured by Diagnostic Products Corporation in the detection of recurrence of thyroid carcinoma in patients treated by thyroidectomy and ablative therapy was assessed by clinical follow-up and radioiodine scanning of 122 patients over a 2-year period.
  • (15) A survey is given on the method of the transvasal intracardiac ablation in the treatment of atrial and ventricular tachyarrhythmias.
  • (16) Only two pts had a right bundle branch block after ablation.
  • (17) This unique physiological situation was created by crossing IGF-I Tg mice to GH-deficient, dwarf mice in whom somatotrophs were genetically ablated by the expression of a diphtheria toxin transgene in the somatotrophs.
  • (18) The addition of exogenous IL-2 was found to ablate the suppressive effects of steroids on lymphocyte blastogenesis.
  • (19) In this study, uninjured basal forebrain cholinergic neurons did not die after excitotoxic ablation of their target neurons in young adult rats, indicating that they are either not dependent on neurotrophic factors for survival or can obtain trophic support from other sources after target neurons are lost.
  • (20) The mortality of the renal ablation group was greater than that of the sham controls but not significantly different for the fish oil or the regular laboratory diet groups.

Oblation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of offering, or of making an offering.
  • (n.) Anything offered or presented in worship or sacred service; an offering; a sacrifice.
  • (n.) A gift or contribution made to a church, as for the expenses of the eucharist, or for the support of the clergy and the poor.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Boys from King Edward VI grammar school will lay oblations inside Holy Trinity church, while the Coventry Corps of Drums prepares to lead a "people's parade" towards Bancroft Gardens, where the River Avon widens, and where – if you're lucky – you might see a swan or two cruise by.
  • (2) From the relaxation times and the orientation mechanisms, the nucleosome may be assimilated to an oblate ellipsoid of dimensions about 140 x 140 x 70 A, and the DNA superhelical axis is parallel to its shorter axis.
  • (3) R. of less than 2.6 were oblate and exhibited no significant changes in asymmetry or aggregation number with changes in the amount of solubilized water.
  • (4) n. were analysed and a line of succesively improving approximations of the molecule shape was found: by oblate ellipsoid a:b:c = 1:10.63, by continuous cylinder and hollow cylinder with H = 50 A, 2R = 76 A, 2r = 8A.
  • (5) Assuming constancy of surface area and approximating red cell shapes by both prolate and oblate ellipsoids of revolution, values are determined for cell shape factor and volume under a variety of conditions.
  • (6) The electrical shape effect for erythrocytes is consistent with an oblate ellipsoidal particle with a diameter-to-thickness ratio of 4.
  • (7) With the oblateness of dose efficiency distribution towards the axis of source with the "line-shaped" 192Ir-source an improvement of dose distribution occurs in intracavitary irradiation with the lower and more balanced exposure of fundus uteri, especially in irradiation of the endometrial carcinoma.
  • (8) Upon shrinking, more vesicles became oblate, the halo was obliterated and the electron-density of the matrix increased.
  • (9) The energy barrier to adsorption, present at sufficiently large surface pressures, was found to be higher for smaller surface hydrophobicities, larger surface pressures, larger size molecules, and oblate orientation of an ellipsoidal molecule.
  • (10) All the experimental data can be explained by the same basic model, consisting of three oblate-shaped domains arranged in a sandwich-like structure.
  • (11) The pronostic is excellent because the quite easy gallbladder oblation brings a quick recovery without after effects.
  • (12) Models that fit the data over the range of scattering angles from 0 to 30 mrad are: prolate ellipsoid with axial ratio 2.3, major axis 12 nm; and oblate ellipsoid with axial ratio 0.4 and major axis 10 nm.
  • (13) The shapes include discs, oblate spheroids, spheres and spindles.
  • (14) A model composed of four oblate ellipsoid monomers in a tetrameric rose arrangement is proposed for the shape of the dopamine beta-hydroxylase molecule.
  • (15) The enzyme may be assumed to be an oblate ellipsoid of revolution with dimensions of about 170 X 170 X 70 A.
  • (16) Sperm heads were examined by light microscopy and assigned to one of five classes: A. normal and near-normal, B. triangulate and oblate, C. spatulate, D. elongate, and E. filamentous.
  • (17) Although the disordered carbohydrate and the complexity of five disulfides in a 126-residue sequence have hampered the complete tracing of the peptide chain, two-thirds of the molecule has been accounted for in the form of an unusually oblate ellipsoid of about 15 X 30 X 35 A.
  • (18) Consequently, the 11S globulin molecule was also an oblate ellipsoid from beta.
  • (19) The production process of the coating sheet (oblate) was also studied.
  • (20) Furthermore, antibodies directed at mouse TNF but not against murine IL-1 alpha or murine IL-6 were able to oblate the enhanced target cell lysis of unfixed, as well as paraformaldehyde fixed (metabolically inactive) Kupffer cells.

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