ablation

Other forms of ablation

plural

ablations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about ablation

What does ablation mean?

ablation means "surgical removal of a body part or tissue". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in ablation?

ablation has 3 syllables: ab-la-tion. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˌʌˈbleɪʃən/.

What is another word for ablation?

Close synonyms include extirpation, cutting out, excision. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ablation a common word?

ablation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.