surgical gown

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   protective garment worn by surgeons during operations

   Synonymsgownscrubs

   Broadergarment

Questions about surgical gown

What does surgical gown mean?

surgical gown means "protective garment worn by surgeons during operations".

What is another word for surgical gown?

Close synonyms include gown, scrubs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is surgical gown a common word?

surgical gown 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.