operating table

noun

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

Examples of operating table in a Sentence

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The most serious blow to Russell’s health hit last spring when doctors revived him on a Washington Hospital Center operating table during surgery to amputate a diabetic toe. —Clarence Williams, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2024

As Altman remains unconscious on an operating table in the OR, her husband, Owen Hunt (Kevin McKidd), is then seen permitting other doctors to perform an unrevealed surgery. —Charna Flam, Peoplemag, 1 Mar. 2024

Beyond learning how to stop the shooter, trainees focus on getting victims to an operating table. —Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 9 Feb. 2024

The river is on the operating table getting those blockages removed. —The Arizona Republic, 16 Feb. 2024

For years, Dempsey played the dreamiest doctor on one of television's biggest shows, making viewers swoon with nothing more than a look across the operating table or a smirk in the elevator. —EW.com, 8 Nov. 2023

At the beating heart of it all, of course, are the two cars, which, in the hours before races, are like patients on an operating table, carefully but constantly tended to, soothed, adjusted, tweaked, pampered. —Corey Seymour, Vogue, 20 Nov. 2023

Those videos frequently included patients who had just undergone surgery, still anesthetized and unconscious on the operating table, their breasts and buttocks often blurred or thinly covered. —Salvador Hernandez, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2023

The surgery had taken place on a Friday, and by Monday the same patient was back on the operating table with a broken hip. —Patrick Rucker, ProPublica, 15 Dec. 2023