operating room

noun

US
: a room in a hospital where operations are done

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His quick transition from the operating room to the TV studio didn’t surprise his long-time collaborator, Dr. Michael Roizen, chief wellness officer at Cleveland Clinic, with whom Oz wrote a series of best-selling health books. Alice Park, TIME, 13 Mar. 2025 General billed Medicare and other government insurers for surgeries performed by Harvard medical trainees without proper oversight because supervising surgeons were working in another operating room. Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 4 Mar. 2025 The arriving crew places a white box about the size of a microwave oven that contains the pig's two kidneys on a wheelchair and rushes it to the operating room. Rob Stein, NPR, 17 Dec. 2024 Ahead of the execution, prison officials released photos of the chamber, which resembles a sterile operating room. Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 17 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for operating room

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“Operating room.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20room. Accessed 4 Apr. 2025.

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