Term: sympathectomy: surgical interruption of a nerve pathway in the sympathetic nervous system
Candidate hypernym: ablation: surgical removal of a body part or tissue → 1
Candidate hypernym: bowling: the playing of a game of tenpins or duckpins etc → 0
Candidate hypernym: cat's-tail: tall marsh plant with cylindrical seed heads that explode when mature shedding large quantities of down; its long flat leaves are used for making mats and chair seats; of North America, Europe, Asia and North Africa → 0
Candidate hypernym: reed rhapis: Chinese lady palm with more slender stems and finer sheath fibers than Rhapis excelsa → 0
Candidate hypernym: secretary of state: the person who holds the secretaryship of the Department of State → 0
Candidate hypernym: blackburn: black-and-white North American wood warbler having an orange-and-black head and throat → 0
Candidate hypernym: geometrid: slender-bodied broad-winged moth whose larvae are called measuring worms → 0
Candidate hypernym: microphage: a neutrophil that ingests small things (as bacteria) → 0
Candidate hypernym: onion bagel: bagel flavored with onion → 0
Candidate hypernym: equator: an imaginary line around the Earth forming the great circle that is equidistant from the north and south poles → 0
Candidate hypernym: secondary hypertension: hypertension that is secondary to another disease → 0