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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

... to remain satisfied with a life of poverty and respectability, and I will not return to one of degradation and vice. But, after all, what does it matter? My fate would have found me sooner or later, and this soft couch is better than a hospital bed or the slabs of La Morgue: this draught is more soothing than the cold waters of the Thames or the Seine. Life is no longer a game that is worth the candle: let us extinguish the lights ...

— Not Pretty, But Precious • John Hay, et al.

... am not afraid of death. Here, on my hospital bed, I see the professor's feverish but calm and wise face. When he grasped the Hebrew by the throat he looked like a lover of Death, like one who has a secret relation with the passing of life, who advocates the claims of Death, and who punishes ...

— The Continental Classics, Volume XVIII., Mystery Tales • Various

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