Term: rhizotomy: surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms
Candidate hypernym: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body → 1
Candidate hypernym: lake trout: flesh of large trout of northern lakes → 0
Candidate hypernym: mobile: sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents → 0
Candidate hypernym: liberal: a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties → 0
Candidate hypernym: miami: a member of the extinct Algonquian people formerly living in northern Indiana and southern Michigan → 0
Candidate hypernym: saponification: a chemical reaction in which an ester is heated with an alkali (especially the alkaline hydrolysis of a fat or oil to make soap) → 0
Candidate hypernym: computer architecture: (computer science) the structure and organization of a computer's hardware or system software → 0
Candidate hypernym: hydrogen cyanide: a highly poisonous gas or volatile liquid that smells like bitter almonds; becomes a gas at around 90 degree Fahrenheit and is most dangerous when inhaled; the anhydride of hydrocyanic acid; used in manufacturing → 0
Candidate hypernym: cottonwood: any of several North American trees of the genus Populus having a tuft of cottony hairs on the seed → 0
Candidate hypernym: didelphidae: opossums → 0
Candidate hypernym: indian plantain: any of various plants of the genus Cacalia having leaves resembling those of plantain → 0