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operating room

noun

  1. a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. : OR


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Word History and Origins

Origin of operating room1

First recorded in 1885–90

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Example Sentences

That made me start searching outside the operating room for understanding why, and what I could do about it.

Forgotten how, in the span of a couple of hours, I went from snuggling with my children on our couch to waking up in a cold, sterile operating room.

In May 2014, the day after Duvernay-Tardif assisted with an emergency Caesarean section in the operating room, Kansas City drafted him in the sixth round.

Outside of an operating room and other catastrophic scenarios, thinking algorithmically is still a good idea.

This is in order to have a simulator for the surgeons who would use it to train before the real surgery in the operating room.

While reporting from Iraq and Kuwait in 2003 he performed brain surgery in a desert operating room.

She still insists she refused the C-section throughout the delivery, even as she was pushed into the operating room.

My husband was allowed to join me where he remained by my side until I was rolled into the operating room.

The pressure in the operating room in Iraq was immense, but combat casualties were not all Dixon faced.

By doing nothing, and by establishing a very high standard of evidence, [America is] giving him some operating room.

Just 45 minutes after this second patient had been brought into the operating room the effort to resuscitate him began.

The heart of one of these men ceased beating as he was brought into the operating room.

But Ruth kept close to Ted, as if she would shield him; the boy looked as Deane had seen novices look in the operating room.

Even the operating-room looked inviting, and more suggestive of cool drinks than of bloodshed.

Up-stairs in the operating room was being played a game of skill which had for its pawns human life and human reason.

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