quirófano
Appearance
Spanish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From quiro- (“chiro-, hand”) + Ancient Greek φαίνω (phaínō, “to show”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]quirófano m (plural quirófanos)
- operating room
- 2020 December 11, Josep Ramoneda, “De Trump a Ayuso”, in El País[1]:
- Da igual que Zendal no tenga ni médicos, ni quirófanos, ni pacientes; es y será el mejor hospital del mundo, porque ella lo dice.
- It makes no difference that Zendal [Hospital] has neither doctors, nor operating rooms, nor patients; it is and will be the best hospital in the world, because she [politician Isabel Díaz Ayuso] says so.
Related terms
[edit]- cirugía (“surgery”)
- quirúrgico (“surgical”)
Further reading
[edit]- “quirófano”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28