Term: laminectomy: surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae
Candidate hypernym: medical procedure: a procedure employed by medical or dental practitioners → 1
Candidate hypernym: flux: a state of uncertainty about what should be done (usually following some important event) preceding the establishment of a new direction of action → 0
Candidate hypernym: testament: strong evidence for something → 0
Candidate hypernym: lexical meaning: the meaning of a content word that depends on the nonlinguistic concepts it is used to express → 0
Candidate hypernym: caspase: any of a group of proteases that mediate apoptosis → 0
Candidate hypernym: pay envelope: wages enclosed in an envelope for distribution to the wage earner → 0
Candidate hypernym: cord: a unit of amount of wood cut for burning; 128 cubic feet → 0
Candidate hypernym: chordamesoderm: the area of mesoderm that forms the notochord → 0
Candidate hypernym: gun pendulum: a ballistic pendulum consisting of a suspended gun; the velocity of a projectile in the bore of a gun can be measured by the recoil when the gun is discharged → 0
Candidate hypernym: maroon: a person who is stranded (as on an island) → 0
Candidate hypernym: rape conviction: conviction for rape → 0