Definition of Operating theatre

1. Noun. A room in a hospital equipped for the performance of surgical operations. "Great care is taken to keep the operating rooms aseptic"

Exact synonyms: Operating Room, Operating Theater, Or, Surgery
Generic synonyms: Hospital Room

Definition of Operating theatre

1. Noun. A room in a hospital used for performing surgery (originally designed for operations in front of observers). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Operating Theatre

operating loss
operating losses
operating microscope
operating procedure
operating room
operating room information systems
operating room nursing
operating room technicians
operating rooms
operating statement
operating surgeon
operating system
operating systems
operating table
operating theater
operating theatre
operating theatres
operating time
operation
operation code
operation of law
operational
operational casualty
operational cell
operational damage
operational definition
operational research
operational service period
operational service periods
operational taxonomic unit

Literary usage of Operating theatre

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Retrospect of Practical Medicine and Surgery: Being a Half-yearly edited by William Braithwaite, James Braithwaite, Edmond Fauriel Trevelyan (1876)
"DEMONSTRATIONS OF ANTISEPTIC SURGERY, BEFORE MEMBERS OF THE BRITISH MEDICAL ASSOCIATION IN THE operating theatre OF THE ROYAL INFIRMARY, AUGUST, 1875. ..."

2. Things I Have Seen and People I Have Known by George Augustus Sala (1894)
"... Cenci"—Laying a Ghost —Valdes Leal's " Dead Prelate "—Gruesome War Pictures— Jan Van Beers—The " operating theatre" of the Inquisition at Madrid — John ..."

3. Operative Surgery by Frederic Carpenter Skey (1851)
"operating theatre THE BEST SCHOOL. — DEFINITION. — CAUSES. — SYMPTOMS. ... THE operating theatre of a hospital is the only school for the acquisition of a ..."

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