preoperative

1. 1.

   happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation

   Similarsurgical

Questions about preoperative

What does preoperative mean?

preoperative means "happening or done before and in preparation for a surgical operation".

How many syllables are in preoperative?

preoperative has 5 syllables: pre-o-pe-ra-tive. The stress falls on "o". In IPA it is /ˌpɹiˈɔpəɹətɪv/.

Is preoperative a common word?

preoperative 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.