surgical-gowned

English

Etymology

From surgical gown +‎ -ed.

Adjective

surgical-gowned (not comparable)

1. Wearing a surgical gown.

   Synonym: surgically gowned

   • 2000, Michael Bliss, Dreams Within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir, Carbondale, Ill., Edwardsville, Ill.: Southern Illinois University Press, →ISBN, page 39:

     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; […]

   • 2006, Bruce Wagner, Memorial, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, →ISBN, page 481:

     […] 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.

   • 2022, Stephanie Heit, Psych Murders, Wayne State University Press, →ISBN, page 12:

     Occasional rush of make way as a human hooked to machines and entourage of surgical-gowned people run through.