Definition of Postoperatively

1. Adverb. After the operation. "Remove postoperatively"

Partainyms: Postoperative

Definition of Postoperatively

1. Adverb. In a postoperative context; after surgery. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Postoperatively

1. [adv]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Postoperatively

postnouns
postnuclear
postnucleation
postnup
postnups
postnuptial
postobese
postoblongata
postobservation
postobservations
postocular
postoffice
postoffices
postop
postoperative
postoperatively (current term)
postops
postoral
postorbital
postorbitals
postorder
postoutbreak
postovulation
postovulatory
postpaid
postpainterly
postpalatine
postpartisan
postpartisanship

Literary usage of Postoperatively

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Operative Gynecologic Laparoscopy: Principles and Techniques by Camran Nezhat (2000)
"Hormone replacement therapy should begin postoperatively. Patients with residual disease may benefit from receiving progestin for 3 to 6 ..."

2. Acute Pain Management: Operative Or Medical Procedures and Trauma Clinical by Daniel B. Carr, Ada K. Jacox (1997)
"In a less technologically demanding approach, systemically administered opioids given pre-, intra-, or postoperatively augment the duration and ..."

3. Health Consequences of Smoking: Cardiovascular Disease: A Report of the by DIANE Publishing Company, C. Everett Koop, M.D. (1995)
"In 30 patients who continued to smoke, 9 late occlusions occurred, but no occlusions developed in 16 patients who ceased smoking postoperatively. ..."

4. The Oxford Medicine by Henry Asbury Christian, James Mackenzie (1920)
"Heparin or other anticoagulant may be used prophylactically postoperatively to reduce the incidence of pulmonary embolism and thereby the acute cor ..."

5. Collected Papers by the Staff of Saint Mary's Hospital, Mayo Clinic by Saint Marys Hospital (Rochester, Minn.) (1921)
"... a urethral catheter is used postoperatively. The greatest care in cleanliness, in introducing catheters, in using instruments under aseptic conditions, ..."

6. Physical Fitness: A Guide for Individuals with Spinal Cord Injury by David F. Apple, Jr. (1996)
"postoperatively, the elbow is protected with a splint for a period of 2 weeks. Rehabilitation from Phase II can be initiated at that time as tolerated. ..."

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