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• post-operative

Adjective

postoperative ‎(not comparable)

1. Of, pertaining to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.

   The postoperative procedure is as follows.

2. Like someone who has recently had surgery.
   • 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.

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