examination table

noun

: a table in a doctor's office on which a patient lies to be examined

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In the women’s center, a tent is set up with an examination table, a midwife, and a doctor. — Janine Di Giovanni, Vanity Fair, 25 June 2026 Slocum’s voice is thin and soft, like the paper covering your doctor’s examination table. — Sadie Sartini Garner, Pitchfork, 1 June 2026 Patients lie face down with their feet dangling over the edge of the examination table. — Matt Villano, CNN Money, 3 Dec. 2025 Sheets of leather come in through the back door, and their first stop is a big examination table. — Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 31 July 2025 The internet is already a part of us, inside of us; and maybe what remains for the digital novelist is to get outside, to gather up the whole snarled mess of tubes and plunk it down on an examination table. — Katy Waldman, New Yorker, 19 May 2025 When Tina came back into the room, Lilian was lying on the examination table, naked but for her underpants and a robe held closed by her hands, since she had been warned by Tina not to tie the belt. — Yiyun Li, The New Yorker, 9 Mar. 2025

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“Examination table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/examination%20table. Accessed 26 Sep. 2026.

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