preoperative
Speech parts
1. preoperative - Noun
2. preoperative - Adjective
3. preoperative - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation
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As operating on a frankly hyperthyroid patient is dangerous, prior to thyroidectomy preoperative treatment with antithyroid drugs is given to render the patient "euthyroid" (i.e. normothyroid).
For example, preoperative and postoperative becomes pre- and postoperative (not pre- and post-operative ) when suspended.
In November of 1966, he was scheduled to have neck surgery for pain in his neck and back, when a preoperative x-ray revealed a large tumor in his left lung.
"Further investigations are warranted, including detailed cost-effectiveness analyses for preoperative urinalysis assessment," the researchers noted.
"Previous studies have reported that the importance of preoperative AVT is mainly to reduce postoperative HBV reactivation in patients with HBV-related HCC," the authors wrote.
Patients were stratified according to whether they gained more or less weight than the median in the preoperative period and whether their parents had bariatric surgery.