variants or less commonly preop
: preoperative
pre-op blood work
a pre-op exam

Examples of pre-op in a Sentence

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One victim in the affidavit was said to have missed a pre-op appointment to have a tumor removed from their temporal lobe. Greg Wehner, Fox News, 12 Aug. 2024 During her pre-op appointment, Ulrich showed Sanchez a pamphlet for a new procedure using a device called a Sonata. Ed Stannard, Hartford Courant, 26 July 2024 On the latest episode of the Hulu series, the matriarch begins the road to surgery by first undergoing a pre-op exam with Dr. Boris Vaisman. Cara Lynn Shultz, Peoplemag, 11 July 2024 Doctors can now speak to patients via hologram instead of driving between the hospital and clinic for pre-op, post-op or follow up appointments, according to WFAA. Mary Kekatos, ABC News, 26 June 2024 This pre-op planning device produces a futuristic 3D model of the head and performs a split-hair digital analysis of hair thickness, density, and average hair strands per root. Chris Gallagher, USA TODAY, 21 Apr. 2024 Bodor says the injured surgeon was surprisingly calm during pre-op, as the two discussed the complicated procedure to reconstruct the man's mangled hand. Chris Arnold, NPR, 2 Apr. 2024 On the fourth floor at the University of Michigan Health C.S. Mott Children's Hospital in Ann Arbor, in a small pre-op room, Amedy sat in a hospital bed, wearing a blue hospital gown, resting against a pillow. USA TODAY, 23 July 2023 The sunken ruins of blemishes edited out and outtakes never posted, of pre-op and pre-app bodies. Gaby Wilson, ELLE, 23 Mar. 2023

Word History

First Known Use

1917, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of pre-op was in 1917

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“Pre-op.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pre-op. Accessed 13 Nov. 2024.

Medical Definition

pre-op

adjective
variants also preop
: preoperative
a pre-op blood workup
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