recovery room

1. 1.

   a hospital room for the care of patients immediately after surgery

   Broaderhospital room

Questions about recovery room

What does recovery room mean?

recovery room means "a hospital room for the care of patients immediately after surgery".

Is recovery room a common word?

recovery room 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.