bedfast

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First, a cumbersome external device that will keep the patient bedfast.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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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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I knew a sick girl, who, bedfast for years, used to amuse herself with what her windows and an opera-glass commanded in the way of sky and foliage.

From Doctor and Patient by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)