mastectomy
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
surgical removal of a breast to remove a malignant tumor
Types & categories
- extirpation hypernym
- modified radical mastectomy hyponym
- radical mastectomy hyponym
- simple mastectomy hyponym
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | extirpation |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | modified radical mastectomy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | radical mastectomy |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | simple mastectomy |