excision vs surgery

surgery vs excision

excision and surgery both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

excision (noun)	surgery (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	a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
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	a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage	the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

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