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Operating room   /ˈɑpərˌeɪtɪŋ rum/   Listen
Operating room

noun
1.
A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations.  Synonyms: operating theater, operating theatre, OR, surgery.






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"Operating room" Quotes from Famous Books



... Jocelyn Thew abandoned a game of shuffleboard, and, leaning against the side of the vessel, gazed steadily up at the wireless operating room. The lightnings had been playing around the mast for the last ten minutes without effect. He turned towards one of the ship's officers ...
— The Box with Broken Seals • E. Phillips Oppenheim

... of light-keepers being idle!" continued Eric, warming to his subject. "Keeping a lighthouse in the shape that the Commissioner insists on isn't any easy chore. I tell you, the operating room of a hospital isn't any cleaner than the inside of a lighthouse. They tell a story in the service of a hot one that was handed to a light-keeper by one of the inspectors. The keeper hadn't shaved that morning. The instant the inspector saw ...
— The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers • Francis Rolt-Wheeler

... He gave the orders to the operating room, and the Ertak swung in a great circle toward the gleaming city of the Libars. "It looked like a real row when we got here; I wouldn't have minded being down there for ...
— The God in the Box • Sewell Peaslee Wright

... who, by the way, was considered to be a virtual god amongst gods, came back from the operating room smiling from ear to ear, announcing proudly that he had 'got all the cancer'. But when I saw the result I thought he'd done a butcher's job. The victim couldn't speak at all, nor eat except through a tube, and he looked grotesque. Worst, he had lost all will to ...
— How and When to Be Your Own Doctor • Dr. Isabelle A. Moser with Steve Solomon



Words linked to "Operating room" :   operating theatre, hospital room, surgery



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