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postcaustic

postcaustic adjective: following destruction of tissue.

Adjective

postcaustic (not comparable)

  1. Following destruction of tissue
    • In our study, 66 out of 226 (29.2%) incidents of foreign bodies' ingestion were associated with underlying pathologies including esophageal and hypopharyngeal cancer, postcaustic injury benign stenosis, esophageal stricture, and anastomoses.2015 July 15, Chih-Chien Yao et al., “Endoscopic Management of Foreign Bodies in the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract of Adults”, in BioMed Research International, volume 2015, →DOI

Origin of postcaustic

From post- + caustic.

Questions about postcaustic

What does postcaustic mean?
Postcaustic means following destruction of tissue.
What part of speech is postcaustic?
Postcaustic is an adjective.

Words near postcaustic in the dictionary

  1. postcatastrophic
  2. postcatheterisation
  3. postcatheterization
  4. postcaucus
  5. postcaudal
  6. postcaustic
  7. postcava
  8. postcavae
  9. postcaval
  10. postcavals
  11. postcede

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