postsurgical
adjective
postsurgical is an adjective meaning “Relating to the period following surgery” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled P-O-S-T-S-U-R-G-I-C-A-L, and it appears about once in every 44 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does postsurgical mean?
adjective
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Relating to the period following surgery.
During postsurgical care it is important to keep the wound clean.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is postsurgical?
Postsurgical appears about once in every 44 million words in written English, the 204,233rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Postsurgical in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense relating to the period following surgery:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| German | postoperativ |
| Portuguese | pós-operatório, pós-cirúrgico |
| Spanish | postquirúrgico |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.