surgical instrument vs retractor

surgical instrument and retractor both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
surgical instrument	Yes	No	No	No
retractor	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, retractor is a hyponym of surgical instrument; that is, retractor is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than surgical instrument:

surgical instrument: a medical instrument used in surgery
retractor: surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision

Other hyponyms of surgical instrument include curet, curette, dermatome, dilater, dilator, haemostat, hemostat, photocoagulator, probe, snare, surgical knife, trepan, trephine.

surgical instrument (noun)	retractor (noun)
a medical instrument used in surgery	surgical instrument that holds back the edges of a surgical incision

surgical instrument vs retractor

surgical instrument and retractor both are nouns.

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