bedrail
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- noun
- /ˈbɛdˌreɪl/
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barandilla de cama
- Sims dusted beneath the Formica tray tables and along the underside of the bedrails.
Examples
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Philip's hand finding hers between the bedrails and tubes... the nurse's saccharine smile.
Fiction book (1997) -
Monkey on the outside, between DW and the bedrail, with the baby on the inside right next to me?
Blog text (12) -
He goes to sleep there a few hours before we do, and we use bedrails during that time.
Blog text (12) -
- lncluding a left palm print, palm down on the bedrail, not two feet from Ron Launius' head.
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To obtain cultures from environmental sites, we swabbed a standard 10 cm² area of each patient's countertop, blood pressure cuff, and drawsheet; we also swabbed the bedrail on both sides of the patient.
Academic text (1996) -
The child held onto the bedrail to prevent falling out of bed during the night.
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As she sat on the edge of the bed, she used the bedrail to help herself stand up.
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To ensure safety for the elderly, the caretaker installed a sturdy bedrail on both sides of the bed.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word bedrail is simply bed + rail, and rail means 'a long bar' or guard, as in a handrail on stairs. So a bedrail is the bar at the side of a bed that keeps someone from falling or helps them move.