scrub nurse

noun

a nurse specially trained to assist surgeons in the operating room and serving as part of the surgically clean medical team handling instruments during an operation.

Origin of scrub nurse

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First recorded in 1925–30

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How to use scrub nurse in a sentence

One is the scrub nurse, Miss Rutherford, and the second is the circulating nurse, Mrs. Schrader.
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