operating table
noun
: a special table in an operating room that a person lies on while having an operation
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Sweet Denzell can’t get over the fact that a man is on an operating table, with his intestines spilled out everywhere, and is not screaming in pain.
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Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Once the wounded are on the operating table, antibiotics, antiseptics, blood typing, and the ability to transfuse patients all make surgeries far more likely to be successful today.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
Also, unnatural herds of crabs roam the land, and a brain-dead patient who’s about to have his organs harvested suddenly revives on the operating table.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
In the massive operating room, swinging lights hang over an operating table, machines to make sterile ice are at the ready, and metal tables offer a place where organs can be packaged before they’re taken out of the room to waiting patients across the country.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2024
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Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Once the wounded are on the operating table, antibiotics, antiseptics, blood typing, and the ability to transfuse patients all make surgeries far more likely to be successful today.
—Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019
Also, unnatural herds of crabs roam the land, and a brain-dead patient who’s about to have his organs harvested suddenly revives on the operating table.
—Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024
In the massive operating room, swinging lights hang over an operating table, machines to make sterile ice are at the ready, and metal tables offer a place where organs can be packaged before they’re taken out of the room to waiting patients across the country.
—Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2024
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“Operating table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20table. Accessed 17 Dec. 2024.
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