operating table
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Some desks were buried under stacks of paper, others were as sterile as a surgeon’s operating table.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
When people want to get taller, they wind up on Dr. Kevin Debiparshad’s operating table for leg-lengthening surgery.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 27, 2025
In a haunting approach, the parents tiptoed toward an eerily lifelike replica of their child’s body and carefully transferred the silicone doppelgänger to an operating table.
From New York Times • May 24, 2024
"The people on my operating table were undernourished. A lot of them were cachectic," she said, referring to people experiencing extreme weight loss and muscle wasting.
From BBC • Apr. 12, 2024
He died before the twins were born—on the operating table, while his gall-bladder was being removed.
From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy
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