operating room

noun

1. a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. OR

Word History and Origins

Origin of operating room¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

As they do in most Gaza hospitals, Hamas maintains a torture dungeon at al-Shifa, hidden from the regular wards and operating rooms.

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Much of the factory was supposed to be as sterile as an operating room.

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"The transistors are not going to work. So all of this is cleaner than hospital operating rooms."

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“During my training as a surgeon, I saw how broken and exploitative the healthcare system is and left to focus on how to keep people out of the operating room,” she says on her website.

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Although she had seen him in the emergency room in hundreds of episodes of the former series, Wyle’s mother, a former orthopedic and operating room nurse, said watching him on “The Pitt” hit her harder.

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