operating room

noun

1. a specially equipped room, usually in a hospital, where surgical procedures are performed. : OR

Word History and Origins

Origin of operating room¹

First recorded in 1885–90

Example Sentences

Standard protocol when a critically ill patient experiences a miscarriage is to stabilize her and, in most cases, hurry to the operating room for delivery, medical experts said.

From Salon

“It used to have an intensive care unit, an operating room, and a cardiology department,” he says.

From BBC

They show up to outpatient clinics already displaying signs of trouble, Horvath said, and immediately have to be sent to the hospital where there’s an operating room and a blood bank.

From Salon

Thurman was finally taken to an operating room at 2 p.m.

From Salon

Recently, he told me, a younger doctor he is training felt he had to leave the operating room during a procedure for a woman who was 34 weeks pregnant.

From Los Angeles Times