aftercare vs operation

aftercare

noun
  • The care given to a patient during recovery from an operation or after hospitalization. 

  • Tender affection and care given to a partner after a BDSM activity, usually to serve as a transition between the activity and whatever follows it. 

  • Services and support offered to a customer for the goods or service they have purchased. 

  • Childcare services tending to children after the school day. 

  • Emotional support offered by the programme makers to a person who has appeared on a stressful talk show, etc. 

operation

noun
  • A surgical procedure. 

  • The method or practice by which actions are done. 

  • The act or process of operating; agency; the exertion of power, physical, mechanical, or moral. 

  • A procedure for generating a value from one or more other values (the operands); 

  • A military campaign (e.g. Operation Desert Storm) 

  • A planned undertaking. 

  • A business or organization. 

  • a function which maps zero or more (but typically two) operands to a single output value. 

  • The method by which a device performs its function. 

How often have the words aftercare and operation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )