operative field

1. 1.

   the area that is open during surgery

   Broaderfield

Questions about operative field

What does operative field mean?

operative field means "the area that is open during surgery".

Is operative field a common word?

operative field 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.