operating table
noun
: a special table in an operating room that a person lies on while having an operation
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While on the operating table, Beau developed a blood clot, which Winston handled so speedily that Jules was left awestruck.
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025
Abby is the daughter of the doctor who was supposed to operate on Ellie but whom Joel shot point blank as Ellie lay unconscious on the operating table.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Apr. 2025
Season 1 then deals with the lingering trauma of a parent losing a child, only for Joel to then forge a new kind of a family with Ellie and then once again be faced with losing her on the Firefly operating table.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Lamm, whose first child had been born five months earlier, watched the dire-wolf births on FaceTime as James trained his phone on the operating table.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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Charlie Mason, TVLine, 17 Apr. 2025
Abby is the daughter of the doctor who was supposed to operate on Ellie but whom Joel shot point blank as Ellie lay unconscious on the operating table.
—Eliana Dockterman, Time, 13 Apr. 2025
Season 1 then deals with the lingering trauma of a parent losing a child, only for Joel to then forge a new kind of a family with Ellie and then once again be faced with losing her on the Firefly operating table.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 9 Apr. 2025
Lamm, whose first child had been born five months earlier, watched the dire-wolf births on FaceTime as James trained his phone on the operating table.
—D. T. Max, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
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“Operating table.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/operating%20table. Accessed 24 Apr. 2025.
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