operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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Showrunner Meg Marinis told TV Insider that Meredith will spend more hours in the hospital's operating room. Anthony Robledo, USA Today, 10 Oct. 2025 Tran, who was previously linked romantically to Chris Brown and Robert Kardashian, walked hand-in-hand with her beau as nurses wheeled him to the operating room. Natasha Dye, PEOPLE, 8 Oct. 2025 In the past, this was a complicated procedure that entailed stripping out the varicose veins in the operating room with the patient under general anesthesia. Bryant Stamford, Louisville Courier Journal, 2 Oct. 2025 Realistic set-ups, like a hospital bed complete with IV and an operating room laid out with special lighting and equipment, turn imaginative play into a storytelling mecca. Pamela Brill, Parents, 2 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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“Operating room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20room. Accessed 20 Oct. 2025.

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