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operating table

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noun

  1. the table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Unable to see what was happening from the operating table, Lauryn says: "I have moments of remembering things. A lot is a blur."

From BBC ● May 11, 2026

Some desks were buried under stacks of paper, others were as sterile as a surgeon’s operating table.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 27, 2026

An hour later, she was on the operating table.

From BBC ● Apr. 22, 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

He died before the twins were born—on the operating table, while his gall-bladder was being removed.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

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