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medbed en · NOUN

Etymology

Short for medical bed.

Meanings

1. A bed equipped with technology for medical diagnosis and treatment.
   • That might work. Call the Aurorae and have a medbed waiting in your prep room. If we can offload them on medbeds, we can load them the same way. 2013, Maggi O'Mally, Aurorae II, page 161:
   • On either side of the medbed I was in, and on the other side of the long, narrow room, other medbeds stretched in long rows. I couldn't make them out well, though, and I remembered they had added distortion fields to medbeds to give patients privacy. 2012, John Joseph Adams, Armored:
   • Dante snapped his fingers and Damon appeared with a medbed. "As you can see he is the patient." 2020, Serena Simpson, Keriann McKenna, Mick:
   • She was lying on a medbed and only clad in her black jumpsuit. Her armor, helmet and pack were gone. 2014, Rhiannon Frater, The Last Mission of the Living:

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biobed