Term: intestinal obstruction: blockage of the intestine (especially the ileum) that prevents the contents of the intestine from passing to the lower bowel
Candidate hypernym: pathological state: a physical condition that is caused by disease → 1
Candidate hypernym: cranium: the part of the skull that encloses the brain → 0
Candidate hypernym: white zinnia: subshrub with slender woolly stems and long narrow leaves and flower heads with white rays; southern United States and northern Mexico → 0
Candidate hypernym: muon: an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino → 0
Candidate hypernym: laminariales: in some classifications coextensive with family Laminariaceae: marine brown algae of cold or polar seas → 0
Candidate hypernym: discovery: something that is discovered → 0
Candidate hypernym: penpusher: a clerk who does boring paperwork → 0
Candidate hypernym: crenelation: the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows → 0
Candidate hypernym: digital vein: one of the veins serving the fingers or toes → 0
Candidate hypernym: multiprocessor: a computer that uses two or more processing units under integrated control → 0
Candidate hypernym: self-report personality inventory: a personality inventory in which a person is asked which of a list of traits and characteristics describe her or him or to indicate which behaviors and hypothetical choices he or she would make → 0