Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun sex-change_operation

1 sense of sex-change operation

Sense 1
sex-change operation, transsexual surgery -- (surgical procedures and hormonal treatments designed to alter a person's sexual characteristics so that the resemble those of the opposite sex)
       => 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")