operating table
noun
: a special table in an operating room that a person lies on while having an operation
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The patient was already asleep on the operating table.
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Suzanne Blake, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Household Gods Bigger Than Money Marni Jackson Through a haze of anesthetic, a patient on the operating table recognizes her surgeon's voice.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
There’s plenty of blame to go around for how so much died on the operating table here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Sweet Denzell can’t get over the fact that a man is on an operating table, with his intestines spilled out everywhere, and is not screaming in pain.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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Suzanne Blake, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
Household Gods Bigger Than Money Marni Jackson Through a haze of anesthetic, a patient on the operating table recognizes her surgeon's voice.
—Max Ufberg, hazlitt.net, 4 Jan. 2025
There’s plenty of blame to go around for how so much died on the operating table here.
—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 5 Dec. 2024
Sweet Denzell can’t get over the fact that a man is on an operating table, with his intestines spilled out everywhere, and is not screaming in pain.
—Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
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“Operating table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20table. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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