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

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His mother had been bedfast with an incurable ailment for months and he wanted to marry highfalutin Mary Louise Smith, 18-year-old daughter of onetime big-league Ballplayer Jimmy Smith, now a well-to-do Pittsburgh nightclub owner.

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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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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)