Term: palatopharyngoplasty: surgical resection of unnecessary palatal and oropharyngeal tissue to open the airway; intended to cure extreme cases of snoring (with or without sleep apnea)
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: lycaeon: African hunting dog → 0
Candidate hypernym: rocket engineer: an engineer who builds and tests rockets → 0
Candidate hypernym: bicameral script: a script having two distinct cases → 0
Candidate hypernym: phrase: an expression consisting of one or more words forming a grammatical constituent of a sentence → 0
Candidate hypernym: animal order: the order of animals → 0
Candidate hypernym: chipewyan: a member of the Athapaskan people living in western Canada between Great Slave Lake and Hudson Bay → 0
Candidate hypernym: fertilizer: any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile → 0
Candidate hypernym: diet: the usual food and drink consumed by an organism (person or animal) → 0
Candidate hypernym: dray: a low heavy horse cart without sides; used for haulage → 0
Candidate hypernym: marching orders: an order from a superior officer for troops to depart → 0