post-op
See also: postop
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post-op (not comparable)
- Happening after an operation.
- a postop consultation
- 2022 May 11, Sandra E. Garcia, “Butt Lifts Are Booming. Healing Is No Joke.”, in The New York Times Magazine[1]:
- When Randi Wright got a Brazilian butt lift in 2020 — a complex surgery in which fat is liposuctioned from the abdomen or lower back or other fleshy parts and used to enlarge and shape the buttocks — she knew she couldn’t afford the most expensive post-op care.
- Having been operated on.
- 2010, Anne M. Vitale, The Gendered Self:
- As stated earlier all post-op transsexuals live in a parallel world where it is prudent to keep information regarding one's transsexual status limited to only those who need to know.
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- (medicine) A postoperative patient or procedure.
- (LGBT) A postoperative trans man or trans woman.