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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Example Sentences

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

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

She changed into a scrub suit in the van, ran across the lawn, and entered the staging area.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston

A private first class named Charlotte Godwin hurried outdoors to the van and climbed inside, and took off all her clothes, and put on a surgical scrub suit, socks, sneakers, and a hair cap.

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