operating table

Example Sentences

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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

"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

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

It was as if I were on the operating table again.

From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes