hospital bed

noun

a bed having side rails that can be raised or lowered and a mattress base in three jointed sections so that the head, foot, or middle may be raised by a crank or motor, allowing a patient to lie in various positions, as a therapeutic aid or for comfort.

Origin of hospital bed

First recorded in 1815–25

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His ambition then was to be pale, consumptive, to drink the dregs of poverty's poisoned chalice, and to toss on a hospital-bed.
The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 74, December, 1863
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