operating-room table

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English

Noun

operating-room table (plural operating-room tables)

  1. Alternative form of operating room table.
    • 1921 May 31, “Surplus Medical Stores. Opportunity for Hospitals.”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 20,628, London, page 8:
      The laboratory material of all kinds includes glassware of pre-war quality, a number of microscopes, operating-room tables, instruments, cabinets, rubber and waterproof goods.
    • 1952 February 7, “Ways Told to Prevent Explosions In Hospital Operating Rooms”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 68, number 226, page 14:
      For by draping wet towels over the legs of operating-room tables, accumulation of static electricity is prevented and sparks thus can’t be generated to set off hospital explosions.
    • 2014 July 21, Mads Gilbert, “In an open letter, Dr Mads Gilbert recounts conditions in a Gaza hospital”, in The Independent, number 8,668, page 9:
      Enough for a large well-trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating-room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday’s hospitals.