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verb
To ablate again (as, for example, with repeated ablation of cardiac fibers for recurrent arrhythmias).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: medicine, sciences, surgery
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
History
By surface analysis, re- + ablate; perhaps by back-formation from reablation, although as with many such inflected pairs among classical compounds in biomedical vocabulary, the question of which inflected form came first is mainly of trivial interest rather than practical interest.
