trifurcation vs ramification

trifurcation and ramification both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
trifurcation	Yes	No	No	No
ramification	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, ramification is a hypernym of trifurcation; that is, ramification is a word with a broader meaning than trifurcation:

Other hypernyms of trifurcation include branching, fork, forking.

trifurcation (noun)	ramification (noun)
the act of splitting into three branches	the act of branching out or dividing into branches
	an arrangement of branching parts
	a development that complicates a situation
	a part of a forked or branching shape