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Definition: Postoperative |
PostoperativeAdjective1. Happening or done after a surgical operation; "postoperative complications"; "postoperative care". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Health | After surgery. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: Postoperative |
| English words defined with "postoperative": clear liquid diet. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "postoperative": Analgesia, Patient-Controlled ♦ Cysteinyldopa ♦ Fungemia ♦ Heparin, Low-Molecular-Weight ♦ Laryngeal Masks ♦ Multiple Organ Failure, Mycobacterium chelonae. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Postoperative" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. German (postoperatively). |
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Health | Euphoria can be seen in patients during the early postoperative period. (references) | |
Some patients, however, may experience significant late postoperative depression. (references) | ||
Women with stage IA grade 1 and most IB grade 1 ovarian cancer do not require postoperative adjuvant therapy. (references) | ||
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Postoperative" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Postoperative" is used about 102 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 102 | 32,309 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "postoperative": Postoperative Care ♦ Postoperative Complications ♦ Postoperative Hemorrhage ♦ Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting ♦ Postoperative Period. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "postoperative"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | بعد عملية جراحية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 手术后. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pooperaèní. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | postoperativ (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | postoperatief (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پس ازعمل جراحی . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | postoperatiivinen (post-operative), leikkauksen jälkeinen (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | postopératoire (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | postoperativ (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μετεγχειρητικός (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שלאחר תוח. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | postoperatorio (post-operative). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | "後 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | じゅつ" (predicate, technical term). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 수 후. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ostoperativepay pós-operatório, pós-operativo. (various references) послеоперационный. (various references) postoperativni. (various references) postoperatorio (post-operative). (various references) postoperativ adjuverande kemoterapi (postoperative adyuvant chemotherapy). (various references) ameliyattan sonraki, ameliyat sonrası. (various references) післяопераційний. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "postoperative": postoperatively. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-i-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-t-v" | |
-3 letters: evaporites, operatives, vaporettos. | |
-4 letters: appetiser, appetites, epopoeias, evaporite, operative, operettas, optatives, overstate, patooties, periostea, poetaster, portative, potteries, poverties, privatest, stovepipe, vaporetti, vaporetto, veritates. | |
-5 letters: appetite, apposite, approves, ariettes, epitopes, epopoeia, estivate, iterates, operates, operetta, opposite, optative, overeats, overpast, overstep, overtips, overtops, parietes, patootie, patriots, peartest, peatiest, periapts, pipettes, poetiser, poetries, poperies, popovers, porpoise. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-i-o-o-p-p-r-s-t-t-v" | |
+2 letters: postoperatively. | |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01110011 01110100 01101111 01110000 01100101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01101001 01110110 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o s t o p e r a t i v e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 0073 0074 006F 0070 0065 0072 0061 0074 0069 0076 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)50818586818271846786758871 |
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