How to Use ablation in a Sentence

ablation

noun

• The surface of the shield begins to burn away, in a process called ablation.
  — Julian Dossett, Space.com, 24 Mar. 2026
• An ablation destroys the cells in the heart that are causing the abnormal rhythm.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 30 May 2024
• By contrast, a patient who undergoes laser ablation can be back to work or at school in less than two weeks.
  — Wayne Drash, CNN, 11 Feb. 2018
• Years of research and new data have now made ablation the preferred treatment.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 30 May 2024
• Vein ablation is a procedure to close off a varicose, or enlarged, vein.
  — Fox News, 18 Oct. 2019
• The treatment involves a catheter ablation procedure, where a catheter is sent to the heart through a vein in the groin.
  — Sam Blum, Dallas News, 18 Nov. 2020
• Six years after her ablation, she's not gone back into AFib.
  — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 10 Apr. 2026
• Hudson had a heart ablation performed to stop that extra pathway.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 12 Nov. 2024
• My doctors used ablation to successfully burn and freeze them away.
  — Julia Ries, SELF, 11 Mar. 2024
• The device used for laser ablation surgery was approved by the FDA nine years ago.
  — Wayne Drash, CNN, 11 Feb. 2018
• The first was an ablation procedure in which the area of the heart that causes the arrhythmia is destroyed.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 21 Sep. 2022
• Thirteen years passed between his first and second ablations, and the second was 12 years ago.
  — Sam Farmer, Los Angeles Times, 14 Oct. 2024
• The surgery—an ablation (where doctors burn away abnormal tissue)—lasted a few hours, and recovery took three weeks.
  — Katrina Martin, Health, 4 Mar. 2025
• An ablation procedure would have required her to miss a substantial amount of last season.
  — Jacob Steinberg, Baltimore Sun, 21 Sep. 2022
• Each of these hospitals performs hundreds of Afib ablations per year.
  — Miami Herald, 4 Apr. 2024
• The pulse is so intense that the surface vaporizes instantly, a process known as ablation.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 11 Mar. 2021
• This type of surgery cuts out the diseased tissue down to clear margins, unlike ablation surgery, which just lasers off what's visible.
  — Health.com, 6 Nov. 2020
• During a cardiac ablation, doctors insert a catheter from the groin or the wrist into the affected area of the heart.
  — Nicole Villalpando, Austin American-Statesman, 23 Apr. 2024
• Radiofrequency ablation, or use of high frequency sound waves to break up the fibroid from outside your body.
  — Sarah Bradley, Health.com, 14 Oct. 2021
• Endometrial ablation is a treatment that destroys or removes most of the lining of the uterus.
  — Amanda MacMillan, Health, 11 Feb. 2023
• This is a process called ablation, which can be done either surgically or, more commonly, with a catheter in the cardiac lab.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 17 June 2021
• Medication can help but the main treatment is ablation, when doctors thread catheters to the heart to burn misfiring tissue.
  — ABC News, 1 Apr. 2026
• That’s another reason why Doshi said Watt should have the ablation procedure done now.
  — Bob McManaman, The Arizona Republic, 5 Oct. 2022
• About half the patients were assigned to received drug therapy, and the other half the ablation procedure.
  — Peter Loftus, WSJ, 10 May 2018
• But studying laser ablation, McLaughlin said, would mean drilling holes in the skill of someone not getting treatment.
  — Frieda Klotz, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Apr. 2025
• According to the Mayo Clinic, nerve ablation is a procedure that destroys nerves in an area of pain.
  — Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 11 June 2025
• Radiofrequency ablation of the nerves in the back has been used since the 1970s in people with intractable back pain.
  — Dr. Keith Roach, oregonlive, 21 Nov. 2022
• In another technique, cardiac ablation, healthcare providers use electrodes to expose problem parts of the heart to heat.
  — Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 16 Sep. 2024
• Victoria Hammill needs massage therapy for her neck and help with ablation of varicose veins.
  — Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 21 Dec. 2024
• One option is a radiofrequency ablation, a procedure that destroys the cells that can cause the condition.
  — Marina Pitofsky, USA TODAY, 12 Apr. 2022