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surgical-gowned

surgical-gowned adjective: wearing a surgical gown.

Adjective

surgical-gowned (not comparable)

  1. Wearing a surgical gown.
    • The old woman lovingly polishing a hubcap; the operation on a crash victim that involves surgical-gowned hospital attendants removing the man’s shoes and watch; […]2000, Michael Bliss, Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir, Carbondale, Ill.; Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 39
    • […] the medics said Big Gulp might even have contractions—in an hour, in a day, a week or a month—a month!—forcing lumpen drowned nacreous soul into the hands of surgical-gowned death-maidens and the fresh mocking air, failed goddess who could not sculpt life from Her offal.2006, Bruce Wagner, Memorial, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 481

Synonyms of surgical-gowned

Origin of surgical-gowned

From surgical gown + -ed.

Questions about surgical-gowned

What does surgical-gowned mean?
Surgical-gowned means wearing a surgical gown.
What part of speech is surgical-gowned?
Surgical-gowned is an adjective.

Words near surgical-gowned in the dictionary

  1. surgical strikes
  2. surgical tape
  3. surgical tapes
  4. surgical technologist
  5. surgical technologists
  6. surgical-gowned
  7. surgicalist
  8. surgicalists
  9. surgically
  10. surgically gowned
  11. surgically induced childhood

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