A white coat, also known as a laboratory coat or lab coat, is a knee-length overcoat or smock worn by professionals in the medical field or by those involved in laboratory work. The coat protects their street clothes and also serves as a simple uniform. The garment is made from white or light-colored cotton, linen, or cotton polyester blend, allowing it to be washed at high temperature and making it easy to see if it is clean.
Viral & Human Genomics Laboratory (Facultad de Medicina UASLP) team members using Howie lab coats.
The ubiquitous white uniform of Argentine school children is a national symbol of learning.
Scrubs, or sometimes Surgical Scrubs, or Nursing Scrubs, are the sanitary clothing worn by physicians, nurses, dentists and other workers involved in patient care. Originally designed for use by surgeons and other operating room personnel, who would put them on when sterilizing themselves, or "scrubbing in", before surgery, they are now worn by many hospital personnel.
A light blue set of scrubs.
American hospital workers at R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center at University of Maryland Medical Center in Baltimore, Maryland wearing scrubs in 2001
A scrub top
Scrub trousers
