In medicine, ablation is the same as removal of a part of biological tissue, usually by surgery. Surface ablation of the skin (dermabrasion, also called resurfacing because it induces regeneration) can be carried out by chemicals (chemoablation), by lasers (laser ablation), or by electricity (fulguration).
The struggle for supremacy in Greece that had begun eighty years earlier with the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War had finally ended in a stalemate of exhaustion that opened the way for a new powerâ the kingdom of Macedonia. The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
The growth of the power of Athens, and the alarm which this inspired in Lacedaemon, made war inevitable. I.1.23 History of the Peloponnesian War. While Thucydides may have thought he settled the causes of the Peloponnesian War for all time, historians continue to debate the causes of the war. The main suggestions are: