operating table

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Sixteen hours after Tatum was writhing on the court against the New York Knicks, he was stretched out on O’Malley’s operating table on the West side of Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026

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

From BBC • Dec. 26, 2025

When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad’s operating table for leg-lengthening surgery.

From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025

In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their child’s body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table.

From New York Times • May 24, 2024

Once the doctors had him on the operating table and opened him up, they saw that he had cancer.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank