noun
definition
A transgender person who has not yet undergone gender reassignment surgery.
adjective
definition
Prior to surgery.
Examples of preoperative in a Sentence
Webster J, Osborne S. Preoperative bathing or showering with skin antiseptics to prevent surgical site infection.
High inguinal orchiectomy was performed as the preoperative aspiration cytology of the hydrocele fluid showed atypical cells.
Crucially, preoperative patients who show more activity in the right hippocampus than the left have less damage to verbal memory after surgery.
It now has preoperative PSA levels on over 80% of the men and postoperative PSA levels on over 50% .
Forty patients at high risk of CBD stones (increased bilirubin, increased alkaline phosphatase and a dilated CBD) underwent preoperative ERCP.
Thirty-two patients had preoperative tracheotomies, while 58 did not.