surgery vs eye surgery

eye surgery vs surgery

surgery and eye surgery both are nouns.

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

As nouns, eye surgery is a hyponym of surgery; that is, eye surgery 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
eye surgery: any surgical procedure involving the eyes

Other hyponyms of surgery 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, 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)	eye surgery (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	any surgical procedure involving the eyes
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations
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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