bodily process vs expectoration

expectoration vs bodily process

bodily process and expectoration both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
bodily process	Yes	No	No	No
expectoration	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, expectoration is a hyponym of bodily process; that is, expectoration is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than bodily process:

bodily process: an organic process that takes place in the body
expectoration: the process of coughing up and spitting out

Other hyponyms of bodily process include control, breathing, external respiration, respiration, ventilation, respiration, breath, consumption, ingestion, intake, uptake, sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice, insemination, sleeping, reaction, response, crying, tears, weeping, ablactation, anastalsis, discharge, emission, expelling, festering, maturation, suppuration, healing, hypostasis, lachrymation, lacrimation, tearing, watering, lactation, opsonisation, opsonization, overactivity, peristalsis, vermiculation, diaphoresis, hidrosis, perspiration, sudation, sweating, phagocytosis, pinocytosis, placentation, psilosis, tanning, transpiration.

bodily process (noun)	expectoration (noun)
an organic process that takes place in the body	the act of spitting (forcefully expelling saliva)
	the process of coughing up and spitting out

Difference between bodily process and expectoration

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