operating theatre

British

noun

a room in which surgical operations are performed

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Upon arrival, nurses took protesters with eye injuries to operating theatres through the back by using staff lifts.

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King George Hospital is home to the Elective Surgical Hub, a unit of nine operating theatres dedicated solely to planned operations.

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Rose, an operating theatre practitioner, is a trans woman, a biological male who identifies as a woman.

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I'm wearing scrubs at the back of an operating theatre at Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

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"I was conscious all the way to the operating theatre."

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