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/hˈɑspˌɪtəl bɛd/ Listen

Hospital bed

noun

A single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required.

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"Hospital bed" Quotes from Famous Books

... of the room somehow and made his way back to the hospital ward through the back door. Dick Prescott never learned what the "joke" was. But Dodge, back in the hospital bed, muttered: ...

— Dick Prescott's First Year at West Point • H. Irving Hancock

... confess that I had a realizing sense of the fact that my hospital bed was not a bed of roses just then, or the prospect before me one of unmingled rapture. My three days' experiences had begun with a death, and, owing to the defalcation of another nurse, a somewhat abrupt plunge ...

— Hospital Sketches • Louisa May Alcott

... bought all over Germany showing the Zeppelins bombing towns. When some German father sits by the hospital bed of his dying daughter, who sobs out her life torn with a fatal wound, let him tack one of these postcards over the bed and in looking on it remember that "he who lives by the sword shall perish by the ...

— Face to Face with Kaiserism • James W. Gerard

... foot slipped on a mossy brick. Oh, no doubt they thought they were punishing some negligent friend or friends by letting themselves down into this sort of thing. Never mind! He recalled the tender, confiding, friendly way in which he had talked to John, sitting on the edge of his hospital bed. He wished, now, he had every word back he had uttered. They might hide away to the full content of their poverty-pride. Poverty-pride: he had invented the term; it was the opposite pole to purse-pride—and just as mean,—no, ...

— Dr. Sevier • George W. Cable

Words linked to "Hospital bed" : leg, single bed