surgery vs transplant

transplant vs surgery

surgery and transplant both are nouns.

surgery is not a verb while transplant is a verb.

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

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

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, 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.

surgery (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
a room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations	an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
a room where a doctor or dentist can be consulted	(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

surgery (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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