operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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Williams was rushed to the operating room, where surgeons removed about six feet of his intestines. Dhruv Khullar, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025 Trust and liability concerns keep humans in the operating room and keep the robots out. Alora Bopray, USA Today, 21 Sep. 2025 In that case, 33-year-old TJ Hoover woke up in the operating room to find people shaving his chest, bathing his body in surgical solution and talking about harvesting his organs. Jacqueline Howard, CNN Money, 18 Sep. 2025 The anaesthetist was gone for about eight minutes when a nurse walked in on him and another nurse alone in another operating room putting their clothes back on, according to the BBC. Sean Neumann, PEOPLE, 17 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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