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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"
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
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 ..."