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operating table

NOUN
operating room
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Unable to see what was happening from the operating table, Lauryn says: "I have moments of remembering things. A lot is a blur."

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

Some desks were buried under stacks of paper, others were as sterile as a surgeon’s operating table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

The patient is sedated and covered up on the operating table.

From BBC ● Dec. 26, 2025

Among the goods that Fried said are shipped in cargo holds are harvested lungs that need to be delivered to an operating table, temperature-sensitive and radiological pharmaceuticals and parts needed for assembly lines.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 7, 2025

A few minutes later I’m lying on the operating table, the room dim except for the blinding light directly above my head.

From "Five Feet Apart" by Rachael Lippincott


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