Meaning & use
intraoperative
Occurring or performed during the course of a surgical operation, rather than before or after it.
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Intraoperative monitoring alerted the team to a drop in the patient's blood pressure.
Intraoperative frozen-section results let the surgeon remove additional tissue right away.
A note on using this word
Often contrasted with 'preoperative' and 'postoperative' when describing the stages of surgical care.
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