recovery room

noun

: a hospital room equipped for meeting postoperative emergencies

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Live vlogging minutes after the anesthesia has worn off in the recovery room. — Audrey Noble, Vogue, 31 Dec. 2025 While there are sauna, steam and cold plunge pools on offer in both the male and female changing rooms, inside the 12 recovery rooms, things get a little more high tech. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 June 2026 The latter has hyperbaric chambers, a cryotherapy lab, a massage suite and a recovery room. — Pete Grathoff, Kansas City Star, 5 Feb. 2026 The Pacific Beach resident, in an overnight recovery room after surgery, agreed. — Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for recovery room

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First Known Use

1896, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of recovery room was in 1896

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recovery room

noun
: a hospital room where patients are temporarily placed for special care and observation after an operation

Medical Definition

recovery room

noun
: a hospital room which is equipped with apparatus for meeting postoperative emergencies and in which surgical patients are kept during the immediate postoperative period for care and recovery from anesthesia
—abbreviation RR
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