operating table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Sixteen hours after Tatum was writhing on the court against the New York Knicks, he was stretched out on O’Malley’s operating table on the West side of Manhattan.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 22, 2026
"Before you know it, you are on the operating table having your prostate removed – and we see examples of that all the time," Prof Hamdy said.
From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025
When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad’s operating table for leg-lengthening surgery.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their child’s body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table.
From New York Times • May 24, 2024
It was as if I were on the operating table again.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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