reoperable

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

re- +‎ operable

Adjective[edit]

reoperable (not comparable)

  1. (surgery) Able to be reoperated upon
    • 2016 January 20, “Fine-Needle Aspiration Biopsy as a Preoperative Procedure in Patients with Malignancy in Solitary and Multiple Thyroid Nodules”, in PLOS ONE[1], →DOI:
      Thus, we could extend the indication for more radical surgery to include most of our patients with multifocal thyroid lesions, particularly those with incidental thyroid cancer discovered postsurgically in a multinodular goiter that would not have been reoperable if it had been detected before the initial surgery.