operating-table

Kennicott had inherited it from a medical predecessor, and changed it only by adding a white enameled operating-table, a sterilizer, a Roentgen-ray apparatus, and a small portable typewriter.

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They strapped Foyle down on the operating-table while he raved and rambled.

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

Under a harsh battery of lamps, he bent over the operating-table working meticulously with a small steel hammer and a platinum needle.

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

The hall was filled with rusting antique apparatus: a centrifuge, an operating-table, a wrecked fluoroscope, autoclaves, cases of corroded surgical instruments.

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

Foyle strapped the body on the operating-table, opened a case of surgical instruments, and began the delicate operation he had learned by hypno-training that morning ... an operation made possible only by his five-to-one acceleration.

Tiger! Tiger! Bester, Alfred 1955

By suspending a television camera (and a microphone) over the operating-table it is possible to permit any number of medical students and doctors to view an operation at close-range.

Television—Progress and Promise 1949

The ground was covered with wounded, and the doctors were busy at an operating-table, improvised from two barrels and a plank.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 Various

See some poor fellow stretched on the operating-table, stripped for the patching or trimming which half-helpless surgery can supply.

Impressions of a War Correspondent George Lynch

As she was placed on the operating-table the sunlight fell through the lanthorn, and lighted up the golden clusters of her hair, the welcome rays calling forth from her now pale features a responsive smile.

Lancashire Idylls (1898) Marshall Mather

I don't mind once we start -- I don't mind the operating-table.

A Tall Ship On Other Naval Occasions 1886-1967 Bartimeus 1926