Definition

Noun: - Operating table: A specialized, long table in a hospital operating room upon which a patient lies during a surgical procedure.

Usage Examples

• Noun:
  • Bệnh nhân đã được đưa vào phòng mổ và đặt nằm trên bàn mổ. (The patient was taken into the operating room and placed on the operating table.)
  • Chiếc bàn mổ có thể điều chỉnh độ cao theo yêu cầu của bác sĩ phẫu thuật. (The operating table can adjust its height to the surgeon's requirements.)
  • Ánh đèn phòng mổ chiếu sáng rõ vùng cơ thể bệnh nhân trên bàn mổ. (The operating room lights clearly illuminated the area of the patient's body on the operating table.)

Advanced Usage

• The term is specific to medical and surgical contexts. It implies a setting of professional medical intervention.
• It can be used metaphorically in informal contexts to describe a state of being subjected to intense scrutiny or a difficult, critical process, though this is not its primary meaning.
  • Công ty đó như đang nằm trên bàn mổ của các nhà điều tra. (That company is like being on the operating table of the investigators.)

Variants and Related Words

• Bàn phẫu thuật (n): A synonym for "operating table" (phẫu thuật = surgery).
• Giường mổ (n): Less common, but can be used interchangeably (giường = bed).

Synonyms

• Operating table: The direct and most accurate translation.
• Surgical table: A less common but acceptable synonym in English.

Related Idioms

• Nằm trên bàn mổ: Literally "to lie on the operating table." This phrase is used both literally for surgery and figuratively to mean being in a critical situation where one is being analyzed or "operated on," often under pressure.
  • Dự án mới đang nằm trên bàn mổ để hội đồng xem xét. (The new project is on the operating table for the council to review.)

noun

1. (y học) Operating table