Term: phlebectomy: surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins
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: atavism: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic → 0
Candidate hypernym: old english: English prior to about 1100 → 0
Candidate hypernym: time signature: a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat → 0
Candidate hypernym: bloodroot: perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant → 0
Candidate hypernym: lotus: native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: gastrointestinal hormone: hormones that affect gastrointestinal functioning → 0
Candidate hypernym: verticality: position at right angles to the horizon → 0
Candidate hypernym: black rat snake: large harmless shiny black North American snake → 0
Candidate hypernym: twinkler: an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner → 0
Candidate hypernym: rocky mountain whitefish: whitefish of the western United States and Canada → 0