operating table
Example Sentences
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It is warehousing usable items, from file cabinets to the operating table in the surgical theater, and will distribute them to nonprofits primarily in Mexico.
From Los Angeles Times • May 1, 2026
The procedure they thought would spare them a complicated surgery leads some to the operating table anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026
"Before you know it, you are on the operating table having your prostate removed – and we see examples of that all the time," Prof Hamdy said.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 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
Soon, with Gey anesthetized on the operating table, surgeons opened him up and found that the cancer was inoperable —growths covered his stomach, spleen, liver, and intestines.
From "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" by Rebecca Skloot
