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postoperative

Word definitions for postoperative in dictionaries

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. happening or done after a surgical operation; "postoperative complications"; "postoperative care"

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. of, pertaining to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation

Usage examples of postoperative.

Laurie had to step out of the way of a passing gurney carrying a postoperative patient back to her room.

Were they patients who were in their first day postoperative, like McGillan and Morgan?

There were different surgeons, mostly different anesthetists, a variety of anesthetic agents, a significant variation of preoperative and postoperative drugs, and differing locations in the hospital.

The surgical incision was closed and showed no signs of inflammation, although there was some evidence of postoperative bleeding, with a bit of crusted blood along the suture line.

The cases involve mostly different doctors, different procedures, different anesthetic agents, and, for the most part, different medications, even for postoperative pain.

Her postoperative course had been entirely uneventful, and she had already been started on clear fluids by mouth.

And the third, much more recent, is the improved medical understanding of the patient, with attendant improvements in pre-operative and, especially, postoperative care.

Most of them had had their surgery and were progressing well at various stages from postoperative, through having stitches out, to discharge.

The idea is to pull the drain out, inch by inch, beginning on the second postoperative day, thereby letting the wound heal slowly from the inside out.

Sperry was two days postoperative for gastric ulcer, and it was time to begin pulling his drain.

Two nurses took charge of the patient while I wrote postoperative orders and dictated the operative note.

Theatre and were now lying, surrounded by postoperative equipment--drainage tubes, suction pumps and the like--fighting, albeit unconsciously, for their lives, unaware that the nurses were fighting even harder.

The hope was that at least one of the two postoperative hemispheres would be unaffected by subsequent seizures.

The biomembrane is a self-sterilizing operating theater in miniature and it adapts to a postoperative therapy center, he should live so long, as the saying goes.

I was face-down in a postoperative sling so all I could see was a communications station moving, while my own body hung unmoved.