Definition of "operating-theatre" [operating-theatre]

• Attributive form of operating theatre (noun)

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• "This is a man who used a stopwatch to determine the optimal method of buttoning a shirt -- bottom-up/top-down -- and had his enormous brood of children given sequential tonsilectomies which he filmed in order to establish today's familiar operating-theatre procedure."
• "The battlefield seen from a distance and in a position of complete safety is like going over a hospital and seeing the flowers in the wards, the perfect sanitary arrangements and the general air of orderly comfort, and ignoring the operating-theatre with all its grim tragedies."
• ""It's not surgery!" said one of the young surgeons, coming out of the operating-theatre and washing his hands at the kitchen sink; "it's butchery!""