Term: amygdalotomy: psychosurgery in which amygdaloid fibers that mediate limbic system activity are severed (in cases of extreme uncontrollable violence)
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: oxaprozin: a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Daypro) → 0
Candidate hypernym: thallophyte: any of a group of cryptogamic organisms consisting principally of a thallus and thus showing no differentiation into stem and root and leaf → 0
Candidate hypernym: stop bath: an acid bath used to stop the action of a developer → 0
Candidate hypernym: cartesian coordinate: one of the coordinates in a system of coordinates that locates a point on a plane or in space by its distance from two lines or three planes respectively; the two lines or the intersections of the three planes are the coordinate axes → 0
Candidate hypernym: cross section: a sample meant to be representative of a whole population → 0
Candidate hypernym: smash: a serious collision (especially of motor vehicles) → 0
Candidate hypernym: wallaby: any of various small or medium-sized kangaroos; often brightly colored → 0
Candidate hypernym: peccary: nocturnal gregarious pig-like wild animals of North America and South America → 0
Candidate hypernym: dutch courage: courage resulting from intoxication → 0
Candidate hypernym: population: (statistics) the entire aggregation of items from which samples can be drawn → 0