postoperative
Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operationOf, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.
» Staph infections in hospitals pose a significant threat to the health of postoperative surgical patients.
patgfisher · Tatoeba · CC BY 2.0 FRMeaning
1 senses(not comparable)Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.
The postoperative procedure is as follows.
1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139, She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
postoperativ
happening or done after a surgical operation
Examples
1 sentencesStaph infections in hospitals pose a significant threat to the health of postoperative surgical patients.
Translations
6 languagesBy meaning 1
Word family
1 related wordsSee also
neighbours in the dictionaryDictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.