Term: venesection: surgical incision into a vein; used to treat hemochromatosis
Candidate hypernym: work: activity directed toward making or doing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: silky dogwood: shrub of eastern North America closely resembling silky cornel → 0
Candidate hypernym: tailback: (American football) the position of the offensive back on a football team who lines up farthest from the line of scrimmage → 0
Candidate hypernym: geneva gown: black academic gown widely used by Protestant clergymen → 0
Candidate hypernym: addison's disease: a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin → 0
Candidate hypernym: steady state theory: (cosmology) the theory that the universe maintains a constant average density with matter created to fill the void left by galaxies that are receding from each other → 0
Candidate hypernym: nostril: either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose → 0
Candidate hypernym: pastness: the quality of being past → 0
Candidate hypernym: strap: whip consisting of a strip of leather used in flogging → 0
Candidate hypernym: time sharing: (computer science) the use of a central computer by many users simultaneously → 0
Candidate hypernym: sweater: a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body → 0