operating-room table

plural operating-room tables

1. alternativeAlternative form of operating room table.

   The laboratory material of all kinds includes glassware of pre-war quality, a number of microscopes, operating-room tables, instruments, cabinets, rubber and waterproof goods.

   1921 May 31, “Surplus Medical Stores. Opportunity for Hospitals.”, in The Daily Telegraph, number 20,628, London, page 8

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   For by draping wet towels over the legs of operating-room tables, accumulation of static electricity is prevented and sparks thus can’t be generated to set off hospital explosions.

   1952 February 7, “Ways Told to Prevent Explosions In Hospital Operating Rooms”, in The Pittsburgh Press, volume 68, number 226, page 14

   Enough for a large well-trained hospital with everything, but here – almost nothing: electricity, water, disposables, drugs, operating-room tables, instruments, monitors – all rusted and as if taken from museums of yesterday’s hospitals.

   2014 July 21, Mads Gilbert, “In an open letter, Dr Mads Gilbert recounts conditions in a Gaza hospital”, in The Independent, number 8,668, page 9