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Laboratory vs Operatory - What's the difference?

laboratory | operatory |

As nouns the difference between laboratory and operatory

is that laboratory is a room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis while operatory is (medicine) a room in which a dentist (or assistant) performs tasks away from the patient.

laboratory

English

Alternative forms

* labouratory

Noun

(laboratories)
  • A room, building or institution equipped for scientific research, experimentation or analysis.
  • A place where chemicals, drugs or microbes are prepared or manufactured.
  • *{{quote-magazine, date=2014-06-21, volume=411, issue=8892, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Magician’s brain , passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory . He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}

    See also

    * ("laboratory" on Wikipedia)

    operatory

    English

    Noun

    (operatories)
  • (medicine) A room in which a dentist (or assistant) performs tasks away from the patient
  • (obsolete) A laboratory