Term: cautery: the act of coagulating blood and destroying tissue with a hot iron or caustic agent or by freezing
Candidate hypernym: entity: that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving) → 1
Candidate hypernym: dime novel: a melodramatic paperback novel → 0
Candidate hypernym: spill: the act of allowing a fluid to escape → 0
Candidate hypernym: archerfish: any of several small freshwater fishes that catch insects by squirting water at them and knocking them into the water; found in Indonesia and Australia → 0
Candidate hypernym: printing operation: an operation that controls the printing or display of information → 0
Candidate hypernym: simple mastectomy: removal of a breast leaving the underlying muscles and the lymph nodes intact → 0
Candidate hypernym: relation: an act of narration → 0
Candidate hypernym: acrocarp: a moss in which the main axis is terminated by the archegonium (and hence the capsule) → 0
Candidate hypernym: pyralidae: bee moths; corn borers; flour moths → 0
Candidate hypernym: ringer's solution: an aqueous solution containing the chlorides of sodium and potassium and calcium that is isotonic to animal tissues; used to correct dehydration and (in physiological experiments) as a medium for in vitro preparations → 0
Candidate hypernym: clannishness: tendency to associate with only a select group → 0