Term: phlebectomy: surgical removal or all or part of a vein; sometimes done in cases of severe varicose veins
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: atavism: a reappearance of an earlier characteristic
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: old english: English prior to about 1100
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: time signature: a musical notation indicating the number of beats to a measure and kind of note that takes a beat
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: bloodroot: perennial woodland native of North America having a red root and red sap and bearing a solitary lobed leaf and white flower in early spring and having acrid emetic properties; rootstock used as a stimulant and expectorant
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: lotus: native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: gastrointestinal hormone: hormones that affect gastrointestinal functioning
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: verticality: position at right angles to the horizon
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: black rat snake: large harmless shiny black North American snake
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: twinkler: an object that emits or reflects light in an intermittent flickering manner
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: rocky mountain whitefish: whitefish of the western United States and Canada