recovery room
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3.2
- noun
- /rɪˈkʌvəri ruːm/
:
sala de recuperación
- The nurse monitored the patient in the recovery room until he was fully awake.
Examples
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Mrs. Stark had been in the recovery room waiting for his mother after her double mastectomy.
Fiction book (1994) -
The recovery room looked like the one I usually woke up in at Class Acts.
Fiction book (1998) -
Do you know where the patient recovery room is?
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We ended up holding hands in the recovery room.
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Take her to the recovery room.
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This is the recovery room.
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Take him to the recovery room.
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We held James for two hours while they got our recovery room ready.
Blog text (14) -
"When I woke up in the recovery room, I did not know where I was or what day it was.
Academic text (2009) -
Your daughter's out of surgery and she's in the recovery room now, okay?
How Monitored
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derived from combining 'recovery' (the process of restoring health) with 'room' (an indoor space): a room used for recovery after surgery. This noun+noun composition follows a regular, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Recovery room comes from the simple idea of a quiet room where a patient goes to recover after an operation; nurses watch them there until they wake and are safe. So, it means 'a room in a hospital where patients are closely monitored after surgery'.