Ablation
From Psychology Wiki
Community portal · Tasks to do · News · Help
Clinical · Educational · Ind&Org · Other fields · Professional · Transpersonal · World
Assessment | Biopsychology | Comparative | Cognitive | Developmental | Language | Personality | Philosophy | Research Methods | Social | Statistics
Clinical: Approaches · Group therapy · Techniques · Types of problem · Areas of specialism · Taxonomies · Therapeutic issues · Modes of delivery · Model translation project · Personal experiences ·
The preferred term in the APA Thesaurus is lesions
Contents |
[edit] Medicine
In medicine, ablation is the same as removal of a part of biological tissue, usually by surgery. The American Heritage Stedman's Medical Dictionary defines ablation as "Removal of a body part or the destruction of its function, as by a surgery, disease, or noxious substance." [1]
Where full removal of an organ or structure has taken place the term extirpation is used
[edit] Ablation experiment
An ablation experiment or lesion experiment is the removal of tissue to explore its function and was a basic research methodology in physiological psychology in the earlier part of the 20th century. The approach was refined in 1824 by Marie jean Pierre Flourens, a French physiologist.
