pre-op
/ˈpriːɒp
/informal
adjective
short for preoperative.Whenever I schedule a patient for a procedure, the anesthesiologists order a bunch of pre-op labs, and I am copied on the results....
- So quite often pre-op physiotherapy is required and this may be several months of intensive physiotherapy.
- When they came to give me the pre-op needle for the anaesthetic I just screamed.
noun
A tranquillizing injection or other treatment administered in preparation for a surgical operation.And as you can see, the pre-ops are on the left and the post-ops are on the right....
- When maintainers do pre-ops from memory, I become edgy.
- photo-oxidation
- photo-oxidative
- photo-oxidise
- photo-oxidizable
- photo-oxidize
- photo-pass
- photopathy
- photopeak
- photoperiod
- photoperiodic
- photoperiodically
- photoperiodism
- photopheresis
- photophil
- photophile
- photophilic
- photophilous
- photophily
- photophob
- photophobe
- photophobia
- photophobic
- photophobous
- photophone
- photophonic