hospital bed

1. 1.

   a single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required

   Broadersingle bed

   Partsleg

Questions about hospital bed

What does hospital bed mean?

hospital bed means "a single bed with a frame in three sections so the head or middle or foot can be raised as required".

Is hospital bed a common word?

hospital bed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.