excision vs operation

operation vs excision

excision and operation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
excision	Yes	No	No	No
operation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, operation is a hypernym of excision; that is, operation is a word with a broader meaning than excision:

excision: surgical removal of a body part or tissue
operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

Other hypernyms of excision include surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process.

excision (noun)	operation (noun)
surgical removal of a body part or tissue	a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence	(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society	activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage	a planned activity involving many people performing various actions
	a process or series of acts especially of a practical or mechanical nature involved in a particular form of work
	a business especially one run on a large scale
	the activity of operating something (a machine or business etc.)
	(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
	(computer science) data processing in which the result is completely specified by a rule (especially the processing that results from a single instruction)
	process or manner of functioning or operating
	the state of being in effect or being operative

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