medical procedure vs operation

medical procedure and operation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
medical procedure	Yes	No	No	No
operation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, operation is a hyponym of medical procedure; that is, operation is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than medical procedure:

medical procedure: a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners
operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body

Other hyponyms of medical procedure include surgery, surgical operation, surgical procedure, surgical process, dental procedure.

medical procedure (noun)	operation (noun)
a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners	a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
	(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods
	activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)
	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

medical procedure vs operation

medical procedure and operation both are nouns.

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