operating theatre
noun
a room in which surgical operations are performed
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How to use operating theatre in a sentence
The operating theatre is crowded; much talk and fun, and all the cordiality and stir of youth.
Spare Hours | John BrownThat is Tommy's way of announcing that he is to go under the surgeon's knife, on a visit to the operating theatre.
Observations of an Orderly | Ward MuirI was then carried straight through ward I. into the operating theatre.
Fanny Goes to War | Pat BeauchampBut he found anatomy and materia medica intolerable, and the operating theatre was a horror.
Rustic Sounds | Francis DarwinA more serious matter from the point of view of our work was the absence of water in the operating theatre.
A Surgeon in Belgium | Henry Sessions Souttar
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