SEX-CHANGE OPERATION

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex

Synonyms:

sex-change operation; transsexual surgery

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Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("sex-change operation" is a kind of...):

operation; surgery; surgical operation; surgical procedure; surgical process (a medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body)

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