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reoperable

reoperable adjective: able to be reoperated upon.

Adjective

reoperable (not comparable)

  1. Able to be reoperated upon
    • Thus, we could extend the indication for more radical surgery to include most of our patients with multifocal thyroid lesions, particularly those with incidental thyroid cancer discovered postsurgically in a multinodular goiter that would not have been reoperable if it had been detected before the...2016 January 20, “Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy as a Preoperative Procedure in Patients with Malignancy in Solitary and Multiple Thyroid Nodules”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin of reoperable

From re- + operable.

Questions about reoperable

What does reoperable mean?
Reoperable means able to be reoperated upon.
What part of speech is reoperable?
Reoperable is an adjective.

Words near reoperable in the dictionary

  1. reopening
  2. reopening old wounds
  3. reopenings
  4. reopens
  5. reopens old wounds
  6. reoperable
  7. reoperate
  8. reoperated
  9. reoperates
  10. reoperating
  11. reoperation

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