Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun debridement

1 sense of debridement

Sense 1
debridement -- (surgical removal of foreign material and dead tissue from a wound in order to prevent infection and promote healing)
       => 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; "they will schedule the operation as soon as an operating room is available"; "he died while undergoing surgery")