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bedpan

[bed-pan] / ˈbɛdˌpæn /


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She reserved her deepest attention for the orderlies who came in to change her bedpan and her sheets.

From Slate • Jun. 4, 2023

Nursing notes show that Burrell was placed on a bedpan.

From Salon • Sep. 7, 2022

But after one of my colleagues said it looked like a bedpan, I just couldn’t unsee the resemblance.

From The Verge • May 28, 2022

That all of it — the ancient text, the washed dish, the emptied bedpan — manifests love and death.

From New York Times • Sep. 9, 2021

The nurse emptied another patient’s bedpan into a tin bucket.

From "The City Beautiful" by Aden Polydoros




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