Term: curettage: surgery to remove tissue or growths from a bodily cavity (as the uterus) by scraping with a curette
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: federal security bureau: the internal counterintelligence agency of the Russian Federation and successor to the Soviet KGB; formerly led by Vladimir Putin → 0
Candidate hypernym: provitamin: vitamin precursor; a substance that is converted into a vitamin in animal tissues → 0
Candidate hypernym: rightness: according with conscience or morality → 0
Candidate hypernym: deadlock: a situation in which no progress can be made or no advancement is possible → 0
Candidate hypernym: taste cell: an epithelial cell in a taste bud that activates sensory fibers of the facial nerve or the glossopharyngeal nerve or the vagus nerve → 0
Candidate hypernym: slicer: knife especially designed for slicing particular foods, as cheese → 0
Candidate hypernym: electric clock: a clock using a small electric motor → 0
Candidate hypernym: quinquennium: a period of five years → 0
Candidate hypernym: tussock caterpillar: larva of a tussock moth → 0
Candidate hypernym: cesarean delivery: the delivery of a fetus by surgical incision through the abdominal wall and uterus (from the belief that Julius Caesar was born that way) → 0