hospital bed
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2.0
- noun
- /ˈhɑːspɪtl bɛd/
- Specialized
:
cama de hospital
- The nurse adjusted the hospital bed so that the patient could sit up comfortably.
- available hospital beds
- hospital bed in a room
- a day in a hospital bed
Between tiles going by and me waking up in my hospital bed, no time passed.
- Between tiles going by and me waking up in my hospital bed, no time passed.
- He would even lie on the hospital bed with me and he would.
- You know, they lay you on a hospital bed.
- We have a limited amount of hospital beds.
- But I'll also add that I didn't feel powerless in my hospital bed.
- Or the person posting that picture by their sister's hospital bed.
- And I was on bed rest for a month so I couldn't get out of the hospital bed.
- Watching my grandmother lie unconscious on the hospital bed waiting for her body to shut down was excruciatingly painful.
- And when I was in that hospital bed, I thought to myself, if you can't ride a bike, what can you do?
- She gets this diagnosis, you guys, she has the surgery and the next day is our coaching call and she's in her hospital bed with a laptop doing the coaching call with me.
- Alternatively, you or them could end up taking a valuable hospital bed.
- And when I lost my legs, I remember I was laying in the hospital bed.
- And he talked with me and there was a cleaning lady who threw a book about Jesus into the hospital bed and said this is all you need.
Examples
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Should we reserve a hospital bed for you?
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Watching my grandmother lie unconscious on the hospital bed waiting for her body to shut down was excruciatingly painful.
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Exactly how old was the man in the hospital bed?
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Last time I saw him, he was sitting in a hospital bed and drawing.
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Today, she spends most of her time watching television from a hospital bed in her room.
Academic text (1998) -
Arrange for his hospital bed to be brought into the courtroom.
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Drugged up, lying in a hospital bed in Germany.
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You called our office from your hospital bed, and you were hopping mad about it.
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Didn't you come visit my daughter's hospital bed a while ago?
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Annie leans over the hospital bed to brush her son Benjamin's hair.
Academic text (2001)
Synonyms
3
4.8
The bed where a person lies when they are very ill
2
2.5
A bed where a person lies when they are ill or recovering
How Adjustable
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and compositionally derived from 'hospital' (medical facility) + 'bed' (piece of furniture); a B1 learner who knows both words can infer it denotes a bed used in a hospital. This noun–noun compound follows a common and cross-linguistically transparent pattern, so the sense is immediately comprehensible from its parts.
Etymology
Hospital bed comes from the simple idea of a hospital and a bed: it is a bed kept in a hospital for sick people and made so nurses can help them more easily. That's why the phrase means 'a bed designed for patient care and often adjustable'.