Modification and Procedure

Modification

Modification noun - The act, process, or result of making different.

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Procedure and modification are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Procedure" instead a noun "Modification".

Nearby Words: modify, modified, mod, modifying, modifiable

Procedure noun - A usually fixed or ordered series of actions or events leading to a result.

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Modification and procedure are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Modification" instead a noun "Procedure".

Nearby Word: procedural

special	special modification	special procedure
particular	particular modification	particular procedure
typical	typical modification	typical procedure
common	common modification	common procedure
Other adjectives: specific, complete, standard, proper, simple, popular, real, dangerous, illegal, secret, new, final, minor, basic, said, drastic, magical, genetic, surgical.

Actually a more-common-than-you'd-think form of body modification; it's done by gradually splitting the tongue with a razor sharp blade after a procedure similar to a normal tongue piercing.

Source: Tongue Trauma
Lobotomy is actually a specific clinical procedure — the surgical severing of a particular cluster of nerve fibers — so having one's mind damaged by Rekall's non-surgical memory-modification technology wouldn't qualify as one.

Source: Lobotomy

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