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Definition of Operating table
1. Noun. Table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation.
Medical Definition of Operating table
1. A table on which the patient lies during a surgical operation. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Operating Table
Literary usage of Operating table
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Surgery, Gynecology & Obstetrics by The American College of Surgeons, Franklin H. Martin Memorial Foundation (1921)
"Albee Fracture-Orthopedic operating table An Indispensable Table for the ...
When not in use, table occupies no more space than ordinary operating table. ..."
2. Clinical Notes on Uterine Surgery, with Special Reference to the Management by James Marion Sims (1866)
"I have added legs or uprights, a, a, to support the lower part of the chair when
it is extended in the form of an operating- table (fig. 7). ..."
3. A Text-book of obstetrics by Barton Cooke Hirst (1909)
"The operating table should be simple in construction, light in weight, easily
moved on large rollers, with a quickly and easily managed hinged arrangement ..."
4. Longman's Magazine by Charles James Longman (1893)
"You may perhaps some day have the opportunity of observing that a prince or some
other illustrious personage, when he is on an operating-table, ..."
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