surgery vs cautery

cautery vs surgery

surgery and cautery both are nouns.

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

As nouns, cautery is a hyponym of surgery; that is, cautery is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than surgery:

surgery: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
cautery: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing

Other hyponyms of surgery include catheterisation, catheterization, ablation, cutting out, excision, extirpation, amputation, angioplasty, arthroplasty, arthroscopy, brain surgery, castration, cauterisation, cauterization, 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, transplant, transplantation, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection.

surgery (noun)	cautery (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations	an instrument or substance used to destroy tissue for medical reasons (e.g., removal of a wart) by burning it with a hot iron or an electric current or a caustic or by freezing it
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

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