| beds | Equipment on which one may lie and sleep, especially as used to care for the hospital patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| bedside radiography | Making radiographic films of a patient confined to bed by taking a movable X-ray machine to the room. Synonym: bedside radiography. (05 Mar 2000) |
| bedsore | <dermatology> A chronic ulcer that appears in pressure areas in debilitated patients confined to bed or otherwise immobilised, due to a circulatory defect from the enhanced tissue pressure in high-contact areas, often occurring over a bony prominence (for example sacral decubitus). (13 Nov 1997) |
| bedstaff | "A wooden pin stuck anciently on the sides of the bedstead, to hold the clothes from slipping on either side." "Hostess, accommodate us with a bedstaff." (B. Jonson) "Say there is no virtue in cudgels and bedstaves." (Brome) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| bedstraw | 1. Straw put into a bed. 2. <botany> A genus of slender herbs, usually with square stems, whorled leaves, and small white flowers. Our Lady's bedstraw, which has yellow flowers, is Galium verum. White bedstraw is G. Mollugo. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
| purbeck beds | <geology> The strata of the Purbeck stone, or Purbeck limestone, belonging to the Oolitic group. Origin: So called from the Isle of Purbeck in England. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998) |
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