scrub nurse

noun

1. 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.

Word History and Origins

Origin of scrub nurse¹

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

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

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