Term: laminectomy: surgical removal of the bony arches on one or more vertebrae
Candidate hypernym: ablation: surgical removal of a body part or tissue → 1
Candidate hypernym: conquistador: an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century) → 0
Candidate hypernym: member: an organization that is a member of another organization (especially a state that belongs to a group of nations) → 0
Candidate hypernym: enemy: any hostile group of people → 0
Candidate hypernym: gate: passageway (as in an air terminal) where passengers can embark or disembark → 0
Candidate hypernym: elution: the process of extracting one material from another by washing with a solvent to remove adsorbed material from an adsorbent (as in washing of loaded ion-exchange resins to remove captured ions); used to obtain uranium ions → 0
Candidate hypernym: litterbin: bin (usually in or outside a public building) into which the public can put rubbish → 0
Candidate hypernym: quasar: a starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy; many have large red shifts → 0
Candidate hypernym: trigger: a device that activates or releases or causes something to happen → 0
Candidate hypernym: read-only memory: (computer science) memory whose contents can be accessed and read but cannot be changed → 0
Candidate hypernym: breast: meat carved from the breast of a fowl → 0