postoperative

What it means

1. not comparableOf, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.

   The postoperative procedure is as follows.

   1 more example

   1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139, She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.

In a sentence

The postoperative procedure is as follows.

Where it comes from

1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
3. Proto-Italic*posti
4. Old Latinposte
5. Latinpost
6. Englishpost-
7. Englishoperative
8. Englishpostoperative

From post- + operative.