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• n  surgical removal of a body part or tissue
• n  the erosive process that reduces the size of glaciers

• Blair, who first disclosed his heart problem last year, underwent a successful catheter ablation to restore normal heart rhythm.
• Blair, who first disclosed his heart problem last year, underwent a successful catheter ablation to restore normal heart rhythm.
• As heart procedures go, a "catheter ablation" is good news: using local anesthetic, a tiny probe is threaded through the arteries to the interior of the heart, where it zaps a few .

• extirpation
• cutting out
• excision

News & Articles

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• Research and Markets: Global Ablation Technologies Market Report 2012-2016: Boston Scientific, Medtronic, St Jude ...
  Research and Markets has announced the addition of the "Global Ablation Technologies Market 2012-2016" report to
  June 11, 2013 - Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
• West Penn Allegheny Clinical Trial Tests New Barrett's Esophagus Treatment
  Pittsburgh researchers are investigating whether a new ablation technology can provide safer and more effective treatment for patients with Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that can progress to esophageal cancer if left untreated. (PRWeb June 11, 2013) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/2013/6/prweb10823110.htm
  June 11, 2013 - PRWeb
• UMC receives $50,000 equipment grant to support Halo System
  University Medical Center Foundation received a $50,000 grant from the Lizanell and Colbert Coldwell Foundation, used to purchase medical equipment and supplies to support the Halo Ablation System to prevent Barrett's Esophagus in patients at risk of developing esophageal cancer.
  June 7, 2013 - El Paso Times

Quotes

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• Johns Hopkins in EurekAlert (press release)
  In an accompanying editorial, Hugh Calkins, MD, professor of medicine and director of the electrophysiology lab at Johns Hopkins Hospital, writes "There is no question that those involved with catheter ablation of AF urgently need a method to...
• Ian Rankin in CNNMoney.com
  Mr. Rankin commented on the new relationship with Cardima: "Dot Medical is almost exclusively focused on products for the treatment of cardiac arrhythmias. We are extremely pleased that Cardima, with its highly innovative ablation and diagnostic...
• Brian Burke in Toronto Star
  Our information from our doctors is there's a standard 20 per cent failure rate with this procedure,said Burke. "We're not surprised. Obviously, we'd prefer it worked the first time. The second ablation, the success rate is much higher."