scrub nurse

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   a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery

   Broadernurse

Questions about scrub nurse

What does scrub nurse mean?

scrub nurse means "a nurse who helps a surgeon prepare for surgery".

Is scrub nurse a common word?

scrub nurse 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.