dilation and curettage
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a surgical procedure usually performed under local anesthesia in which the cervix is dilated and the endometrial lining of the uterus is scraped with a curet; performed to obtain tissue samples or to stop prolonged bleeding or to remove small tumors or to remove fragments of placenta after childbirth or as a method of abortion
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- surgical operation hypernym
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- curettage part meronym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | curettage |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | surgical operation |