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pre-surgical

pre-surgical is the alternative form of presurgical.

Meaning of presurgical

Adjective

presurgical (not comparable)

  1. Occurring before, or in preparation for, surgery.
    • An abnormal reading on a presurgical EKG led to another angiogram, which indicated that the original narrowing had worsened.2009 January 6, Jane E. Brody, “More Isn’t Always Better in Coronary Care”, in New York Times

Questions about pre-surgical

What is pre-surgical the alternative form of?
Pre-surgical is the alternative form of presurgical.

Words near pre-surgical in the dictionary

  1. pre-suppose
  2. pre-supposed
  3. pre-supposes
  4. pre-supposing
  5. pre-surgery
  6. pre-surgical
  7. pre-symptomatic
  8. pre-synaptic
  9. pre-syncope
  10. pre-syncopes
  11. pre-T

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pre-surgical (page history and authors); presurgical (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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