Term: cholecystectomy: surgical removal of the gall bladder (usually for relief of gallstone pain)
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: musculophrenic artery: an artery that supplies the abdomen and intercostal muscles
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: osculation: (mathematics) a contact of two curves (or two surfaces) at which they have a common tangent
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: neoplatonist: an adherent of Neoplatonism
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: lysichiton: skunk cabbage
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: flashback: a transition (in literary or theatrical works or films) to an earlier event or scene that interrupts the normal chronological development of the story
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: dusky-footed woodrat: host to Lyme disease tick (Ixodes pacificus) in northern California
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: bezant: a gold coin of the Byzantine Empire; widely circulated in Europe in the Middle Ages
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: keycard: a plastic card that has a magnetically coded strip that is scanned in order to operate a mechanism
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: unilateral contract: a one-sided agreement whereby you promise to do (or refrain from doing) something in return for a performance (not a promise)
Broader: operation: a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body | Unrelated: rayleigh disk: an acoustic radiometer consisting of a light disk suspended from a quartz thread; when exposed to a progressive sound wave its torque can measure velocity