Meaning & use
Operatory
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A room, especially in a dental office, equipped and used for examinations and procedures on patients.
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The dentist led her into the operatory and adjusted the chair before beginning the exam.
The new clinic has six operatories, allowing multiple patients to be treated at once.
A note on using this word
Though it sounds surgical, "operatory" is used almost exclusively in dentistry rather than general medicine.
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