bedfast

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

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Here and there a bedfast invalid screamed foolishly.

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She had become bedfast when she was nineteen.

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