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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The enemy that made General Douglas MacArthur a bedfast hospital casualty last week is as common as it is mysterious.

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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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After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast.

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At the coming of winter, Uncle Zed was bedfast.

From Dorian by Anderson, Nephi