scrub suit

American  

noun

1. a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.

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scrub suit

Before Alex can be properly cremated, he rises miraculously from the dead and dons a surgical scrub suit from the Nice morgue.

From Time Magazine Archive

He exited from Level 3—removed his scrub suit and took a water shower and dressed in civilian clothes—and went to Jahrling’s office.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

At nine o’clock on that Friday morning, he put on a surgical scrub suit and a paper mask and went into the Level 3 lab where the flasks were being kept warm.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Johnson put on a surgical scrub suit and rubber gloves, and carried the box into the Level 3 staging area of the Ebola suite, where he opened the box, revealing a mass of foam peanuts.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

Lieutenant Colonel Johnson came in through Level 2 wearing a surgical scrub suit.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston