operating table

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   table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation

   Broadertable

Questions about operating table

What does operating table mean?

operating table means "table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation".

Is operating table a common word?

operating table is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.