surgery vs excision

excision vs surgery

surgery and excision both are nouns.

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

As nouns, excision is a hyponym of surgery; that is, excision 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
excision: surgical removal of a body part or tissue

Other hyponyms of surgery include catheterisation, catheterization, ablation, cutting out, 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, transplant, transplantation, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection.

surgery (noun)	excision (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	surgical removal of a body part or tissue
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations	the act of pulling up or out; uprooting; cutting off from existence
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted	the act of banishing a member of a church from the communion of believers and the privileges of the church; cutting a person off from a religious society
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures	the omission that is made when an editorial change shortens a written passage

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