From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpost-operativeˌpost-ˈoperative adjective [only before noun] relating to the time after someone has had a medical operation post-operative care
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post-operative• The key nursing responsibilities involved in immediate post-operative care can be summarized as follows: 1.• He must devote some of his time to administrative, consultative or post-operative duties too.• Although this varies a great deal from patient to patient, all post-operative patients are likely to have some degree of anxiety and/or pain.• During this time patients will also require information about the peri- and post-operative periods.• Therefore, you must arrange with the hospital for a place in a convalescent home for the post-operative phase.• UC-San Diego questioned whether she had the intelligence to follow through with the difficult post-operative regimen. 