Definition of "postoperative"
Of, relating to, or occurring in the period after a surgical operation.
Quotations
She was looking even paler, more post-operative, as it were, than she had on waking.
1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey, 1991 LB Books edition, page 139
noun
plural postoperatives