Associations to the word «Preoperative»

Wiktionary

PREOPERATIVE, adjective. Happening before surgery

Dictionary definition

PREOPERATIVE, adjective. Happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats