curettage vs surgical procedure

curettage and surgical procedure both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
curettage	Yes	No	No	No
surgical procedure	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, surgical procedure is a hypernym of curettage; that is, surgical procedure is a word with a broader meaning than curettage:

curettage: surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
surgical procedure: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

Other hypernyms of curettage include operation, surgery, surgical operation, surgical process.

curettage (noun)	surgical procedure (noun)
surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette	a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body