operation vs sterilization

sterilization vs operation

operation and sterilization both are nouns.

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

As nouns, sterilization is a hyponym of operation; that is, sterilization 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
sterilization: the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)

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, dilation 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, strabotomy, taxis, tracheostomy, tracheotomy, organ transplant, transplant, transplantation, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection.

operation (noun)	sterilization (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods	the procedure of making some object free of live bacteria or other microorganisms (usually by heat or chemical means)
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

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