What Is Heart Ablation? Heart ablation, or cardiac ablation, is a surgical procedure that is used to correct abnormal heart rhythms. Catheter tubes are used to correct structural heart problems that prevent normal heart rhythms. Malfunctioning heart tissue is scarred or destroyed.
By Anne Marie Helmenstine, Ph.D. Dilute Definition: a solution containing a relatively small quantity of solute as compared with the amount of solvent. This term is the opposite of 'concentrated'.
Definition of dilated. 1  1 : expanded laterally; especially : being flat and widened dilated leaves. 2  2 : expanded normally or abnormally in all dimensions.