operating table

Example Sentences

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Unable to see what was happening from the operating table, Lauryn says: "I have moments of remembering things. A lot is a blur."

From BBC • May 11, 2026

The procedure they thought would spare them a complicated surgery leads some to the operating table anyway.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

"Before you know it, you are on the operating table having your prostate removed – and we see examples of that all the time," Prof Hamdy said.

From BBC • Nov. 28, 2025

Among the goods that Fried said are shipped in cargo holds are harvested lungs that need to be delivered to an operating table, temperature-sensitive and radiological pharmaceuticals and parts needed for assembly lines.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 7, 2025

He placed a cushion on the operating table, which was really just a desk repurposed from the former school, and I laid the bonobo down on it.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer