PREOPERATIVE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does preoperative mean? 

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

1. happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREOPERATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation

Similar:

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

 Context examples 

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)