operating table
Example Sentences
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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
Ms Bacon was given a local anaesthetic to numb her scalp and skull and had immediate improvement in her fingers on the operating table, allowing her to play the clarinet easily.
From BBC ● Oct. 21, 2025
In Hawes's photograph, the surgeons stand impatiently beside the operating table, ready to start work.
From "Phineas Gage" by John Fleischman
