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preoperative

preoperative adjective: prior to surgery.

Adjective

preoperative (not comparable)

  1. Prior to surgery.

Noun

preoperative (plural preoperatives)

  1. A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.

preoperative meaning in Tamil

preoperative in Tamil

அறுவைக்கு முன், அறுவைமுன்

Forms of preoperative

pluralpreoperatives

Origin of preoperative

From pre- + operative.

Words formed from preoperative

Questions about preoperative

What does preoperative mean?
Preoperative means prior to surgery.
What is preoperative in Tamil?
Preoperative in Tamil is அறுவைக்கு முன், அறுவைமுன். See Preoperative meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is preoperative?
Preoperative can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near preoperative in the dictionary

  1. preopening
  2. preoperating
  3. preoperation
  4. preoperational
  5. preoperationally
  6. preoperative
  7. preoperatively
  8. preoperatives
  9. preoperatory
  10. preopercle
  11. preopercles

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Adapted from Wiktionary: preoperative (page history and authors); preoperative (Tamil Wiktionary) (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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