bodily process vs festering

festering vs bodily process

bodily process and festering both are nouns.

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

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

bodily process: an organic process that takes place in the body
festering: (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

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, expectoration, 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)	festering (noun)
an organic process that takes place in the body	a fluid product of inflammation
	(medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

Difference between bodily process and festering

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