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scrub nurse
noun
- a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of scrub nurse1
First recorded in 1925–30
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Example Sentences
One is the scrub nurse, Miss Rutherford, and the second is the circulating nurse, Mrs. Schrader.
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