surgical-gowned en · ADJ
Etymology
From surgical gown + -ed.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Wearing a surgical gown.
Occasional rush of make way as a human hooked to machines and entourage of surgical-gowned people run through.
2022, Stephanie Heit, Psych Murders, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 12: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: