POSTOPERATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does postoperative mean? 

• POSTOPERATIVE (adjective)
  The adjective POSTOPERATIVE has 1 sense:

1. happening or done after a surgical operation

  Familiarity information: POSTOPERATIVE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POSTOPERATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happening or done after a surgical operation

Context example:

postoperative care

Similar:

operative; surgical (relating to or requiring or amenable to treatment by surgery especially as opposed to medicine)

 Context examples 

Researchers found that RTX could be used to block postoperative incisional pain in an animal model.

(Chemical from cactus-like plant shows promise in controlling surgical pain, while leaving touch and coordination intact, National Institutes of Health)

A cephamycin antibiotic with a difluoromethylthio-acetamido group at the 7-beta position of the cephem nucleus, commonly used for postoperative prophylaxis.

(Flomoxef, NCI Thesaurus)

The hydrochloride salt form of nalbuphine, a synthetic phenanthrene opioid with opiate agonist and antagonist effects, used to treat moderate to severe pain and provide preoperative and postoperative analgesia and sedation.

(Nalbuphine Hydrochloride, NCI Thesaurus)

A narcotic analgesic that can be used for the relief of most types of moderate to severe pain, including postoperative pain and the pain of labor.

(Meperidine hydrochloride, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

It is often used for dental analgesia, treatment of acute musculoskeletal injuries, postoperative pain, local analgesia, and in treatment of diabetic patients with peripheral neuropathic pain.

(H-Wave Therapy, NCI Thesaurus)

The prognosis depends on the completeness of the surgical resection, the number of lymph nodes involved by cancer, and the presence or absence of postoperative complications.

(Adenocarcinoma of the Gastroesophageal Junction, NCI Thesaurus)

It is used for occasional constipation, in pre- and postoperative treatment, and in conditions that require facilitation of defecation.

(Bisacodyl, NCI Thesaurus)

A cyclooxygenase inhibiting, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory agent (NSAID) that is well established in treating rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis and used for musculoskeletal disorders, dysmenorrhea, and postoperative pain.

(Piroxicam, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Malabsorption, especially of vitamin B12 or folic acid, due to metabolic competition by bacteria proliferating in a segment of small intestine excluded from normal peristaltic movement; it may occur as a postoperative complication of side-to-side anastomosis of intestine, as a result of intestinal diverticula, fistula, etc.

(Blind Loop Syndrome, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)