operation vs dilation and curettage

operation and dilation and curettage both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
operation	Yes	No	No	No
dilation and curettage	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, dilation and curettage is a hyponym of operation; that is, dilation and curettage is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than operation:

operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
dilation and curettage: a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion

Other hyponyms of operation include catheterisation, catheterization, ablation, cutting out, excision, extirpation, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, cauterisation, cauterization, cautery, chemosurgery, craniotomy, cryosurgery, curettage, curettement, debridement, decortication, D and C, dilatation and curettage, electrosurgery, enterostomy, enterotomy, enucleation, wrong-site surgery, evisceration, exenteration, eye operation, eye surgery, fenestration, gastrectomy, gastroenterostomy, gastrostomy, heart surgery, haemorrhoidectomy, hemorrhoidectomy, hysterotomy, implantation, intestinal bypass, jejunostomy, major surgery, microsurgery, minor surgery, myotomy, myringectomy, myringoplasty, myringotomy, neurosurgery, orchiopexy, osteotomy, ostomy, palatopharyngoplasty, PPP, UPPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, phlebectomy, photocoagulation, anaplasty, plastic surgery, reconstructive surgery, polypectomy, resection, rhinotomy, rhizotomy, sex-change operation, transsexual surgery, purse-string operation, Shirodkar's operation, sterilisation, sterilization, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, organ transplant, transplant, transplantation, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection.

operation (noun)	dilation and curettage (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion
(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

operation vs dilation and curettage

operation and dilation and curettage both are nouns.

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