surgery vs transplantation

transplantation vs surgery

surgery and transplantation both are nouns.

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

As nouns, transplantation is a hyponym of surgery; that is, transplantation 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
transplantation: 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, transplant, trephination, tympanoplasty, uranoplasty, vasovasostomy, vivisection.

surgery (noun)	transplantation (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
the branch of medical science that treats disease or injury by operative procedures

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