Meaning & use
operatories
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Plural of operatory: rooms, especially in a dental office, equipped for examining and treating patients.
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The new clinic has six operatories, each fitted with modern dental chairs.
Patients are called from the waiting room into one of the operatories for their cleaning.
A note on using this word
Operatory is used almost exclusively in dentistry in modern American English, though it once referred more broadly to any workroom.
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treatment rooms
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