HOSPITAL BED • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Hospital bed

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/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.

See images of 'Hospital bed'

Etymology of 'Hospital bed'

Share |

"Hospital bed" Quotes from Famous Books

... much that if I could only lie down and rest for a week or two I'd be the happiest fellow on earth. But it became awful as I lay there, day after day. I had suddenly left the world. All the great events were going on without me. North or South might win, while I lay stretched on a hospital bed. It was beyond endurance. If I hadn't got well so fast that they could let me go, I'd have climbed out of the window with what strength I had, and have made for the army anyhow. Did you ever feel a finer wind than this? What a beautiful ...

— The Sword of Antietam • Joseph A. Altsheler

... the end has come. It is not in my nature 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 and put ...

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

... is better than a medal," he said; "a medal can't save life, but this car will. This is as good as an endowed hospital bed. It's like the King's touch; it heals everyone who comes near. May ...

— Young Hilda at the Wars • Arthur Gleason

... beds are furnished poor patients at a low rate, in some cases gratuitously. Fifteen subscribers give each two francs, or forty cents, a month; the sick man or his patron pays a franc a day, to which the Deaconess Home adds also a franc daily. These three francs represent the bare expenses of a hospital bed. Of course, sixty cents a day is far from meeting the entire cost of rent, food, baths, medicine, and service; but those patients who have been accustomed to a certain degree of comfort in life, when paying three francs, are freed from the painful ...

— Deaconesses in Europe - and their Lessons for America • Jane M. Bancroft

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