: a hospital room equipped for meeting postoperative emergencies
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After time in the recovery room, she was helped from a wheelchair into her mother’s car.—Karen Kucher, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 June 2025 There are affordable, no-frills gyms; luxury gyms, with dedicated recovery rooms and fancy skin care products; and countless boutique spaces with more niche fitness offerings.—Josh Ocampo, New York Times, 30 May 2025 Frank set container and bird in the pet carrier to be moved to a recovery room.—Ian Frazier, New Yorker, 5 May 2025 While the amenities differ slightly at both spaces, members can expect the same discounts on rooms and food and beverage, as well as recovery room access and state-of-the-art fitness centers.—Yola Robert, Forbes.com, 25 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for recovery room
: a hospital room where patients are temporarily placed for special care and observation after an operation
Medical Definition
recovery room
noun
: a hospital room which is equipped with apparatus for meeting postoperative emergencies and in which surgical patients are kept during the immediate postoperative period for care and recovery from anesthesia—abbreviation RR
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