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scrub suit

n.
See scrubs.
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scrub′ suit`


n.
a loose-fitting, two-piece garment, often of green cotton, worn by surgeons.
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Officers and members of the Persons With Disability Antipolo Consumers Cooperative (in dark gray scrub suit) pose with Rizal Governor Rebecca Ynares (fourth from left) and City Mayor Andrea Bautista Ynares (fifth from right) and two other city officials, during the group's courtesy call at the Antipolo City Hall in Antipolo City as part of the observance of the 41st National Disability Prevention and Rehabilitation Week.
"Conquering my fears leads me to engineering" As a child, Engr Sheila L Medel thought she wanted to be surgeon some day given her fascination with scrub suit and surgery mask as well as the desire to save lives upon learning of the death of a relative due to cancer.
He/she reappears again in the operating room, wearing a mask, a scrub suit and an injection in hand, who tells them that they will be off to sleep in a few seconds.
But it is totally something else getting to don a real scrub suit and surgical gloves in an operating room to assist a doctor in actual surgery.
Prince William recently wore a scrub suit during his visit to the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust in London.
This company's polymers are said to impart the stretch and flexibility required in personal care products and offer improved comfort in items such as scrub suit apparel, medical gown laminates and wound care dressings.
In our white-coated uniforms, our scrub suit camouflage, we were the measly privates of the operation being taught the ways of battle.
Should the staff wear a uniform--for example, a basic scrub suit? Uniforms certainly have merit, but if you choose to go that route, it would not be unreasonable for the staff to insist on a clothing allowance, or that you pay for two sets of uniforms--one to wear and a second to wear while the first is being washed.