The rocket's ablated head shield.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Verb (used with object) : to ablate a metal surface with intense heat.    From Dictionary.com. 

It was a little too close to the good pathway to be ablated burnt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doug's Operation] Reference

Dogs with ablated frontal lobes also demonstrate many catatonic features.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry] Reference

Online Texas Holdem navigated McKeon flourish ablated sponge marketability.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo Du Jour – October 31, 2005 – Detroit Hotels 1929 – Part I | International Metropolis] Reference

Perhaps eventually a shield would be ablated away, but that was why all shields were built in layers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gates Of Sleep]

Besides producing secondary radiation, as bad as the primary or worse, it would soon be ablated away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Genesis]

Grabbed by a temporary touchdown and then moving upward as ice is accreted from below and ablated from above.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ayles Ice Shelf, Ellesmere Island « Climate Audit] Reference

And it was wrapped in protective material which ablated away as it came through the fires of the upper atmosphere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space]

But today, perhaps because much of the conversation has to do with "the Holocaust Industry," the shtick seems brutal and ablated from life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rachel Shteir: The Holocaust Follies or Slapstick Without a Cause] Reference

During HIFU, the entire prostate is treated or ablated.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Times of India] Reference

"But for people who get ablated, it's terrific," Wang added.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Because of the restricted life span of Bmi1 gene ablated mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

They said they ablated the misfiring cells with 100 percent accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [ThirdAge] Reference

The growth of beta-cell insulinomas is ablated in Perk-deficient mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Four weeks later, 80 percent of the ablated veins were still inactive.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

VSG transcript, which is efficiently ablated down to 1-2% normal levels.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

DT administration at 16 weeks post-transplant ablated 80. 5% of hCNS-SCns.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Perk-deficient mice was dramatically ablated with much fewer tumors, which averaged.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Get the thyroid ablated with radioiodine and then put Oscar on thyroid replacement.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recent Activity] Reference

In the clinical part of the study, they ablated the misfiring cells with 100 percent accuracy.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

About half the rock had ablated but the microfossils and carbon survived at depth in the sample.    From Wordnik.com.  [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference

The town will be wan with sea blight, colors gutted of vigor, and building facades chipped and ablated.    From Wordnik.com.  [Baltimore City Paper] Reference

IMO, what will happen is that the denial-sphere will be slowly ablated by repeated contact with reality.    From Wordnik.com.  [RealClimate] Reference

Specifically, for males, the order of triglyceride levels matches the order of lifespan: ablated, silenced.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

The cell tractions are markedly ablated. c, Traction map measured at 1000 seconds following stress cessation.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

It is also attenuated in mice whose vesicular GABA transporter is specifically ablated in AgRP-expressing neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

To elucidate the matter, Treier and colleagues ablated, or 'turned off', this gene in the ovaries of adult female mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [EurekAlert! - Breaking News] Reference

Dopamine levels were significantly higher in hemolymph derived from both males and females with ablated corazonin neurons.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

This image shows an ablated and an intact spine.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Beta-cell proliferation was ablated in.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

N = 18) and wild-type AWC-ablated worms (n = 12) on addition (.    From Wordnik.com.  [Naturejobs - All Jobs] Reference

(2007) Brain neutral lipids mass is increased in alpha-synuclein gene-ablated mice.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

Ethanol-ablated NET Gastrointest Endosc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

"ablated" off the USA?).    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet Atheism] Reference

Figs. 4 and 5), DT ablated.    From Wordnik.com.  [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference

"pretermit," "fustigation," "macerate," "ablated," "accretive," "remora," "phlebotomizing,".    From Wordnik.com.  [SeekingAlpha.com: Home Page] Reference