ABLATED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ablated mean? 

• ABLATED (adjective)
  The adjective ABLATED has 1 sense:

1. made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization

  Familiarity information: ABLATED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ABLATED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Made smaller or less by melting or erosion or vaporization

Context example:

the rocket's ablated head shield

Similar:

decreased; reduced (made less in size or amount or degree)

 Context examples 

Any mouse strain with a faulty immune system such that its ability to fight infectious disease is compromised or ablated.

(Immunodeficient Mouse, NCI Thesaurus)

Using the retinitis pigmentosa mouse model, the researchers examined the role of C3 and CR3, the central component of complement and its receptor, by comparing mice with genetically ablated C3 or CR3 to mice with normal expression.

(Immune system can slow degenerative eye disease, National Institutes of Health)