operation vs transplant

transplant vs operation

operation and transplant both are nouns.

operation is not a verb while transplant is a verb.

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

As nouns, transplant is a hyponym of operation; that is, transplant 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
transplant: an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)

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

operation (noun)	transplant (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location
(mathematics) calculation by mathematical methods	an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
activity by a military or naval force (as a maneuver or campaign)	(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
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 (verb)	transplant (verb)
	transfer from one place or period to another
	place the organ of a donor into the body of a recipient
	lift and reset in another soil or situation
	be transplantable

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