operating room
a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. Abbreviation: OR
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How to use operating room in a sentence
That made me start searching outside the operating room for understanding why, and what I could do about it.
Policymaking Is Not a Science (Yet) (Ep. 405 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | March 25, 2021 | FreakonomicsForgotten how, in the span of a couple of hours, I went from snuggling with my children on our couch to waking up in a cold, sterile operating room.
Food was my life — until a heart attack at 41 almost killed me | Rob Petrone | March 3, 2021 | Washington PostIn May 2014, the day after Duvernay-Tardif assisted with an emergency Caesarean section in the operating room, Kansas City drafted him in the sixth round.
His team is going to the Super Bowl. He’s staying on the coronavirus front lines. | Adam Kilgore | February 1, 2021 | Washington PostOutside of an operating room and other catastrophic scenarios, thinking algorithmically is still a good idea.
Stay calm under pressure with lessons learned in the world’s most stressful careers | Rob Verger | January 8, 2021 | Popular-ScienceThis is in order to have a simulator for the surgeons who would use it to train before the real surgery in the operating room.
Leveraging collective intelligence and AI to benefit society | Jason Sparapani | November 18, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
While reporting from Iraq and Kuwait in 2003 he performed brain surgery in a desert operating room.
She still insists she refused the C-section throughout the delivery, even as she was pushed into the operating room.
My husband was allowed to join me where he remained by my side until I was rolled into the operating room.
A New Hysterectomy Procedure Eliminates Massive Scarring and Long Recovery Time. So Why Aren’t More Doctors On Board? | Heather Wilson | March 30, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe pressure in the operating room in Iraq was immense, but combat casualties were not all Dixon faced.
By doing nothing, and by establishing a very high standard of evidence, [America is] giving him some operating room.
Just 45 minutes after this second patient had been brought into the operating room the effort to resuscitate him began.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyThe heart of one of these men ceased beating as he was brought into the operating room.
Essays In Pastoral Medicine | Austin MalleyBut Ruth kept close to Ted, as if she would shield him; the boy looked as Deane had seen novices look in the operating room.
Fidelity | Susan GlaspellEven the operating-room looked inviting, and more suggestive of cool drinks than of bloodshed.
Forging the Blades | Bertram MitfordUp-stairs in the operating room was being played a game of skill which had for its pawns human life and human reason.
Glory of Youth | Temple Bailey
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