Term: sterilization: the act of making an organism barren or infertile (unable to reproduce)
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: dodge: a statement that evades the question by cleverness or trickery
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: thwack: a hard blow with a flat object
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: frock coat: a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back; worn in the 19th century
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: threadfin: mullet-like tropical marine fishes having pectoral fins with long threadlike rays
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: coracle: a small rounded boat made of hides stretched over a wicker frame; still used in some parts of Great Britain
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: bondman: a male slave
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: syntax: studies of the rules for forming admissible sentences
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: agonist: a muscle that contracts while another relaxes
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: perennation: the process of living through a number of years (as a perennial plant)
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: obscenity: an offensive or indecent word or phrase