reoperable

English

Etymology

From re- +‎ operable.

Adjective

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, →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.