operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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And Mel’s blood proves to be just enough to keep Sylvia stable until an operating room finally becomes available for her. Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 21 Mar. 2025 While Karla Bradley was upstairs preparing to give birth, her husband, a neurosurgeon, was downstairs in the operating room. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025 Exiting the clean room and leaving the telescope behind is a little like exiting an operating room, passing back through successively less sterile chambers, doffing mask and outer garments, and rejoining the world of dirt and dust and grit and grime. Jeffrey Kluger/greenbelt, TIME, 8 Feb. 2025 His quick transition from the operating room to the TV studio didn’t surprise his long-time collaborator, Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer at Cleveland Clinic, with whom Oz wrote a series of best-selling health books. Alice Park, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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