Term: resection: surgical removal of part of a structure or organ
Candidate hypernym: procedure: a particular course of action intended to achieve a result → 1
Candidate hypernym: call: (sports) the decision made by an umpire or referee → 0
Candidate hypernym: fighter: a high-speed military or naval airplane designed to destroy enemy aircraft in the air → 0
Candidate hypernym: counterplea: a plaintiff's reply to a defendant's plea → 0
Candidate hypernym: gnetales: chiefly tropical or xerophytic woody plants; practically unknown as fossils but considered close to the ancestral line of angiosperms → 0
Candidate hypernym: jackdaw: common black-and-grey Eurasian bird noted for thievery → 0
Candidate hypernym: clitoridectomy: excision of the clitoris → 0
Candidate hypernym: hyperpnea: energetic (deep and rapid) respiration that occurs normally after exercise or abnormally with fever or various disorders → 0
Candidate hypernym: square matrix: a matrix with the same number of rows and columns → 0
Candidate hypernym: kleptomania: an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive → 0
Candidate hypernym: salt marsh mallow: subshrub of southeastern United States to New York → 0