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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
post-operative
adjective
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▪ Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient, all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain.
▪ During this time patients will also require information about the peri- and post-operative periods.
▪ He must devote some of his time to administrative, consultative or post-operative duties too.
▪ The key nursing responsibilities involved in immediate post-operative care can be summarized as follows: 1.
▪ Therefore, you must arrange with the hospital for a place in a convalescent home for the post-operative phase.
▪ UC-San Diego questioned whether she had the intelligence to follow through with the difficult post-operative regimen.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
post-operative

also postoperative, "occurring after a surgical operation," 1869, from post- + operative. Short form post-op is attested from 1971.

Wiktionary
post-operative

a. 1 soon after surgery. 2 Like someone who has recently had surgery.