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Operating theatre

noun

A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations. Synonyms: operating room, operating theater, OR, surgery.

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... boy from Bart's (I think), who made the most preposterous jokes in the darkness, so that I laughed and nearly dropped my end of the box (I saw him in the days to come doing heroic and untiring work in the operating theatre), and with another young surgeon whose keen, grave face lighted up marvellously when an ironical smile caught fire in his brooding eyes, and with other men in this hospital and ambulance column who will be remembered in Belgium as fine and ...

— The Soul of the War • Philip Gibbs

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Words linked to "Operating theatre" : hospital room, surgery, operating room