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Examples of recovery room in a Sentence
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Collier told the publication weight rooms and recovery rooms will be available.
—Fiifi Frimpong, Hartford Courant, 30 May 2024
In the recovery room, I was attended to by the most caring and concerned nurses.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 6 May 2024
The health center was also renovated to add 5,000 square feet, which includes more procedure rooms, waiting rooms, ultrasound rooms, a recovery room and a lab.
—Angie Leventis Lourgos, Chicago Tribune, 19 Sep. 2022
Ringo lived in the recovery room until Miranda’s release a few days later, his vigil broken only when my wife and I took him out for walks and meals.
—David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 Mar. 2024
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Word History
First Known Use
1896, in the meaning defined above
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“Recovery room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/recovery%20room. Accessed 29 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
recovery room
noun
: a hospital room where patients are temporarily placed for special care and observation after an operation
Medical Definition
recovery room
noun
: a hospital room which is equipped with apparatus for meeting postoperative emergencies and in which surgical patients are kept during the immediate postoperative period for care and recovery from anesthesia
—abbreviation RR
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