surgical operation vs D and C

surgical operation and D and C both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
surgical operation	Yes	No	No	No
D and C	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, D and C is a hyponym of surgical operation; that is, D and C is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than surgical operation:

surgical operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body
D and C: a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion

Other hyponyms of surgical operation 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, 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.

surgical operation (noun)	D and C (noun)
a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body	a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion

surgical operation vs D and C

surgical operation and D and C both are nouns.

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