post-operationn.adj.adv.
/ˌpəʊstɒpəˈreɪʃn/, U.S. /ˈˌpoʊstˌɑpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ An action occurring subsequent to and as a result of another. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > existence and causation > causation > effect, result, or consequence > [noun] > consequences
post-operationa1631
respect1692
a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 353 All my co-operation is but a post-operation, a working by the Power of that All-preventing Grace.
B. adj.
Chiefly Medicine. Of, relating to, or occurring in the period following an operation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adjective] > relating to operation > after operation
postoperative1872
post-operation1904
post-op1906
1904 Times 27 June 5/4 In none of the remaining seven [cases] was death due to post-operation peritonitis.
1947 J. R. Stockman Battle for Tarawa Introd. 4 Planning agencies..estimated the numbers and types of weapons on Betio, and located their emplacements. A post-operation survey proved that the estimates were unusually accurate.
1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 17 Operation Pegs... They are still used for plugging post-operation tubes.
1975 Aviation Week & Space Technol. (Nexis) 31 Mar. 44 Some telemetry data will be returned in real time for analysis during the operation. Some will be for post-operation analysis.
1989 Economist 9 Dec. 52/1 False advertisements conceal poor post-operation care.
2004 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 26 Aug. 15 Mrs Mosley..returned home to find a letter with an appointment for her postoperation checkup.
C. adv.
Medicine. After a surgical operation.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical treatment > surgery > [adverb] > operation > during, before, or after operation
postoperatively1899
preoperatively1901
post-operation1934
peroperatively1971
perioperatively1977
1934 Proc. Royal Soc. B. 116 217 Apart from these two birds we have no record of abnormal temperature after the first week post-operation.
1979 Nature 25 Jan. 327/3 The nodules were found in all rats by 6 months post-operation.
2001 Daily Tel. 23 Oct. 5/7 Post operation, there was a substantial number of occasions where [he] failed in his duty or delayed in the taking of proper steps with regard to patients.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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