Usually means: Period following completion of surgery.
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We found 29 dictionaries that define the word postoperative:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. postoperative: Merriam-Webster
  2. postoperative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. postoperative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. postoperative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. postoperative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Postoperative, postoperative: Wordnik
  7. postoperative: Wiktionary
  8. postoperative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. postoperative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. postoperative: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. postoperative: Dictionary.com
  12. Postoperative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. postoperative: Rhymezone
  14. postoperative: FreeDictionary.org
  15. postoperative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. postoperative: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. postoperative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. postoperative: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Postoperative: MedTerms.com Medical Dictionary
  4. Breast Cancer Talking Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  6. postoperative: Dictionary of Cancer Terms
  7. Postoperative: GLOSSARY of BLOOD RELATED TERMS
  8. postoperative: Medical dictionary
  9. Postoperative: Drug Medical Dictionary
  10. Hyperdictionary (No longer online)

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▸ adjective:  Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.
▸ noun:  A transgender person who has undergone gender reassignment surgery.

Similar:
surgical, operative, postsurgical, paraoperative, operatory, reoperative, postseason, obstetric, surg., operational, more...

Opposite:
preoperative, before, surgery, prior, to, surgery, preparatory, antecedent

Types:
open, closed, minimally invasive, robotic, laparoscopic, keyhole, more...

Phrases:
postoperative period, postoperative care, postoperative pain, postoperative complications, postoperative nausea, more...

Adjectives:
immediate, early, preoperative, acute, pre, late, first, year, intraoperative, normal, chronic

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Similar:
surgical, operative, postsurgical, paraoperative, operatory, reoperative, postseason, obstetric, surg., operational, more...

Opposite:
preoperative, before, surgery, prior, to, surgery, preparatory, antecedent

Types:
open, closed, minimally invasive, robotic, laparoscopic, keyhole, more...

Phrases:
postoperative period, postoperative care, postoperative pain, postoperative complications, postoperative nausea, postoperative hemorrhage, postoperative ileus, postoperative vomiting, more...

Adjectives:
immediate, early, preoperative, acute, pre, late, first, year, intraoperative, normal, chronic

Colors:
    white,     blue,     green,     light blue,     teal, more...



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