postoperatively

1. 1.

   after the operation

   “remove postoperatively”

Questions about postoperatively

What does postoperatively mean?

postoperatively means "after the operation".

How many syllables are in postoperatively?

postoperatively has 7 syllables and divides as po-sto-pe-ra-ti-ve-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is postoperatively a common word?

postoperatively is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.