bedfast
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of bedfast
Example Sentences
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The scientists, who have been going aboard each morning since the test started on Jan. 19, took blood samples from the bedfast half of the crew.
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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.
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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.
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He first tried it three years ago on a young woman patient in Houston who had been bedfast six years with arthritic swellings in both knees.
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Why should not the case of poor bedfast wretches in cap and gown, and pale faces, meet with as much consideration as that of your clodpole in scarlet and an 'Albert hat?'
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 364, February 1846 by Various
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