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preoperative

adj

Etymology

From pre- + operative.

  1. derived from operātīvus
  2. derived from operatif
  3. inherited from operative
  4. prefixed as preoperative — “pre + operative”

Definitions

  1. Prior to surgery.

  2. A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for preoperative. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA