surgical operation vs transplant

transplant vs surgical operation

surgical operation and transplant both are nouns.

surgical operation is not a verb while transplant is a verb.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
surgical operation	Yes	No	No	No
transplant	Yes	No	Yes	No

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

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, 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.

surgical operation (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
	an operation moving an organ from one organism (the donor) to another (the recipient)
	(surgery) tissue or organ transplanted from a donor to a recipient; in some cases the patient can be both donor and recipient

surgical operation (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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