operating table

noun

: a special table in an operating room that a person lies on while having an operation

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Once the wounded are on the operating table, antibiotics, antiseptics, blood typing, and the ability to transfuse patients all make surgeries far more likely to be successful today. Tanisha M. Fazal, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2019 Also, unnatural herds of crabs roam the land, and a brain-dead patient who’s about to have his organs harvested suddenly revives on the operating table. Lev Grossman, The Atlantic, 30 Sep. 2024 In the massive operating room, swinging lights hang over an operating table, machines to make sterile ice are at the ready, and metal tables offer a place where organs can be packaged before they’re taken out of the room to waiting patients across the country. Lisa Schencker, Chicago Tribune, 25 Sep. 2024 Eight long months of immobility, pain, and misdiagnoses led Bùi to the operating table in January 2022, where doctors finally excavated the walnut-sized tumor that had jammed between her brain and spine. Ingu Chen, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2024 See all Example Sentences for operating table 

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“Operating table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20table. Accessed 6 Dec. 2024.

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