scrub suit

American  

noun

1. a loose-fitting, usually two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons and assisting personnel in an operating room.

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scrub suit

Before Alex can be properly cremated, he rises miraculously from the dead and dons a surgical scrub suit from the Nice morgue.

From Time Magazine Archive

Johnson put on a surgical scrub suit and rubber gloves, and carried the box into the Level 3 staging area of the Ebola suite, where he opened the box, revealing a mass of foam peanuts.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

As her right arm came out of the suit, she saw that the sleeve of her scrub suit was dark wet and her inner glove was red.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

At nine o’clock on that Friday morning, he put on a surgical scrub suit and a paper mask and went into the Level 3 lab where the flasks were being kept warm.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

He exited from Level 3—removed his scrub suit and took a water shower and dressed in civilian clothes—and went to Jahrling’s office.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston