Staph infections in hospitals pose a significant threat to the health of postoperative surgical patients.
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Postoperative
/poʊstˈɑpəɹətɪv/
Synonyms for "postoperative" (6 found)
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Closest matches (2)
Noun(2 words)
Strong matches (1)
Verb(1 words)
Related words (3)
Adjective(1 words)
Adjective(2 words)
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More general
1 entriesmedical adjective
More specific
6 entriespostoperative bleedingpostoperative deliriumpostoperative infectionpostoperative nauseapostoperative painpostoperative rehabilitation
Collocations
6 entriespostoperative analgesiapostoperative carepostoperative complicationspostoperative infectionpostoperative painpostoperative period
Inflections
2 entriesmore postoperativemost postoperative
Derivations
1 entriessimilar
2 entriesSample sentences
3 total sentences available.
The postoperative procedure is as follows.
Source: wiktionary
1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139, She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
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