operating room
46
3.2
- noun
- /ˈɑːpəˌreɪtɪŋ ruːm/
- US
:
quirófano
- Patients received general anesthesia in the operating room, and intravenous systemic heparin (10,000 IU) was infused.
- taken to the operating room
- surgery in the operating room
- patient in the operating room
I, I walk into the, the surgery, the operating room like this.
- I, I walk into the, the surgery, the operating room like this.
- You, you come out of the operating room.
- Like, I guess that was their, you know, their emergency action plan, like clear the operating room.
- You have to show up to the operating room alive because if you do, there's a good chance you'll make it.
- I was just on a call closet edit yesterday with a woman who is works in an operating room.
- He had finished his last case in the operating room.
- And my mom, she was like in the operating room the whole like in the they would let her stand there as they were operating on me and you know, they're working on me.
Examples
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The patient was taken to the operating room for an excisional biopsy of the tongue mass.
Academic text (2004) -
The patient was taken to the operating room on hospital day 3 for surgical debridement of the neck.
Academic text (2004) -
I just came from the operating room.
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Anyway, the operation will be in the first operating room.
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I only saw the inside of the operating room.
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Dr. Wilson needs you in the operating room.
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The operating room is no place to experiment.
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The patient was taken to the operating room for a left cochlear implant.
Academic text (2005) -
What impressed her most were the two state-of-the-art operating rooms complete with all the requisite ancillary equipment.
Fiction book (1992) -
All patients are extubated while they are awake in the operating room immediately following surgery.
Synonyms
57
3.7
A room in a hospital where doctors do operations
28
4.0
A hospital room where doctors do surgery
4
3.7
A room in a hospital where doctors do surgery
How Specialized
- US
46
3.2
30
1.3
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly compositional: 'operate' (to perform surgery) combined with 'room' (an indoor area) yields 'a room where surgery is performed.' This is a standard, cross-linguistically common noun phrase formation, so a B1 learner who knows the constituents will readily infer the meaning.
Etymology
The phrase operating room comes from a literal idea: a room set aside for operating, that is, for 'surgery' by doctors. Because hospitals put special tools and staff there, the phrase now means 'a room for surgical operations'.