Term: rhizotomy: surgical procedure in which spinal nerve roots are cut; done (anterior roots) to relieve intractable pain or (posterior roots) to stop severe muscle spasms
Candidate hypernym: event: something that happens at a given place and time → 1
Candidate hypernym: black poplar: large European poplar → 0
Candidate hypernym: review: (accounting) a service (less exhaustive than an audit) that provides some assurance to interested parties as to the reliability of financial data → 0
Candidate hypernym: block: (computer science) a sector or group of sectors that function as the smallest data unit permitted → 0
Candidate hypernym: actual possession: (law) immediate and direct physical control over property → 0
Candidate hypernym: decumaria: small genus of woody climbers with adhesive aerial roots; sometimes placed in family Saxifragaceae → 0
Candidate hypernym: diggings: an excavation for ore or precious stones or for archaeology → 0
Candidate hypernym: consanguinity: (anthropology) related by blood → 0
Candidate hypernym: coryphaenidae: large active pelagic percoid fish → 0
Candidate hypernym: superconductivity: the disappearance of electrical resistance at very low temperatures → 0
Candidate hypernym: alsobia: tropical American herbs sometimes included in genus Episcia → 0